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Apache Kafka, API Gateway and Service Mesh for Cloud Connectivity

In this video, @Viktor Gamov illustrates the differences between an API gateway and service mesh — and when to use one or the other pragmatically and objectively. He also discuss the similarities and differences between the communication layer provided by gateways, service mesh and Apache Kafka. Finally, you will learn a few ways to use Apache Kafka within a service mesh architecture.

Kong Gateway 2.7 Is Here and Ready!

Today, we are welcoming another noteworthy advancement of the Kong Gateway – the general availability of version 2.7! Both Kong Gateway and Kong Gateway OSS version 2.7 downloads are available on your favorite distribution channels. This release of the Kong Gateway includes a number of important features that serve as a foundation for addressing three key areas.

Creating a Behavioral Email in Moesif

Using metrics to drive an email flow can provide next-level service to your users. Once a user fits a certain criteria, Moesif can automatically send one-time and recurring emails based on that behavior. In this tutorial, Matt goes over the basic steps to set up a behavioral email in Moesif. These steps include: After this overview, users will be able to set up their own behavioral emails with ease in Moesif.

Kong Gateway User Meetup | December 2021 | Hackathon winner showcase - Rate limiting plugin

In this session, we welcome our Kong Summit Hackathon winner Narendra Patel, Sr. DevOps Engineer at Egnyte, to show off his Kong Gateway rate-limiting plugin, which allows you to rate-limit not just on the number of requests, but the bandwidth consumed too! Kong’s Online User Meetups are a place to learn about technologies within the Kong open source ecosystem. This interactive forum will give you the chance to ask our engineers questions and get ramped up on information relevant to your Kong journey.

Log4J, Log4Shell and Kong

If you’ve been online at all this week, chances are that you’ve heard about the Log4Shell zero-day (CVE-2021-44228) in Log4J, a popular Java logging library. The vulnerability enables Remote Code Execution (RCE), which allows attackers to run arbitrary code on the target’s machines. I know the first question that you all have is: “Is Kong affected by Log4Shell?” Let’s start with the good news: No Kong products are affected by this Log4J vulnerability.

Creating a User Retention Analysis in Moesif

Making sure that users derive value from your product can usually be determined by your user retention. User retention measures what percentage of your users are returning to and using your product. Retention is a key metric to measure business health and product success. In this tutorial, Matt shows users how to set up a retention analysis in the User Retention screen in Moesif. He covers how to: Navigate to the User Retention screen Create a “First Event” and a “Returning Event” to measure the retention How to interpret the results