You’ve decided to install Kong Gateway. Congrats! You’re almost ready to accelerate your microservices journey with the world’s most popular open source API gateway. This article and video will guide you through the short version of our tutorial. If you prefer, here are some more detailed instructions. If you haven’t already, make sure you’ve installed Kong before getting started. It should only take a few minutes.

When choosing between these two popular web API (application programming interface) formats it can be surprisingly difficult to know which one you should select for your infrastructure. Although both Rest (Representational State Transfer) and SOAP(Simple Object Access Protocol) share attributes in common with how they handle HTTP protocols, there are a number of key differences as discussed in this article.

AppSignal was built because we were tired of slow and clumsy monitoring setups. Instead, we built monitoring that’s easy yet powerful - an intuitive interface enables you to figure out what’s happening in no time. Today, our team made finding slow events effortless. We’ve fully overhauled our slow events feature, helping developers to quickly find and fix slow queries and API requests.