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Podcast with Charles Miller on Documentation Best Practices

Ep. 5: Charles Miller, documentation strategist. To help you fend off documentation from being the Achillies heel of your API product, we have a thirty-year veteran of technical writing on our podcast today. Charles Miller is currently the lead content strategist for APIs at Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Systems company.

Comcast's Self-Service API Gateway Development Journey

Comcast has taken a journey to develop an API gateway initially using open source software and in-house enhancements, and later transitioning to open core commercial software to improve the overall service delivery experience for developers. In this session, Comcast will discuss enhancements that the team made to adapt the community edition of Kong, and subsequently the enterprise edition, to support a self-service, multi-tenant, yet still managed, production API gateway solution, as well as open source contributions made to the Kong community along the way.

Collaborative API Design and Testing with Insomnia

Insomnia Designer is a collaborative API design tool for designing and managing OpenAPI specs. This session will cover how to design and test APIs, as well as how to extend Insomnia with custom plugins. Kong Champion Mert Simsek will dive into how as a team is leveraging Insomnia Designer to share information and data APIs across teams to improve their overall process.

The role of the IT Manager in Leading Digital Transformation

As organizations embrace digital transformation, the IT industry has had to change along with it. Expectations are high for the potential effects of implementing new and emerging technologies and organizations are competing to keep pace. With this desire for rapid change, IT managers have been faced with mounting pressure to adopt tools, process and models of digital business as part of enterprise digital transformation initiatives.

Day 0 to Day 2 With Kuma, Helm and Kubernetes | FinTech Studios

During the early days of finding product-market fit, clouds were small. Often, we start with an EC2 instance here, a managed service there, then some Docker containers, microservices, and wait, Kubernetes! As clouds grow with the teams that maintain them, stable relics and legacy systems remain in production. The effort first goes towards building the future and satisfying clients — they’re paying!

Considerations for Deploying a Multi-Cloud Architecture with Kong Gateway, Kuma Service Mesh and Aviatrix

Building a multi-region or multi-cloud environment for your applications requires a lot of attention. In a typical deployment, you would have an API gateway running close to the several application runtimes. You should enhance your deployment to support different regions in a given cloud, or in an even more distributed and hybrid scenario, multiple services running across other public clouds and on-premise environments.

Digital Transformation: What Does It Mean for Enterprise Organizations?

From tiny startups to massive Fortune 500 firms, businesses of all sizes and industries are making heavier investments in digital transformation initiatives. Yet despite this increased awareness and effort, too many large enterprises are still struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing business landscape.

Decentralizing API Design at NAB | National Australia Bank

Continuing on the journey of building a new API platform, NAB’s primary focus this year has been improving API quality by building tooling for API design and API governance. This Kong Summit 2020 session will cover NAB’s new API search capability, which allows quick API discovery across the organization, and how the team implemented decentralized API governance.