Today, we’re thrilled to announce the release of a major expansion to the Insomnia family of open source developer tools — Insomnia Designer! Providing a collaborative environment for editing GraphQL and REST APIs, Insomnia Designer allows developer teams to more easily embrace spec-first approaches to software design.

Today – April 28, 2020 – Kong celebrates its fifth anniversary since it was first open sourced by Mashape in 2015, starting a new era in the API landscape. This is how the Kong logo changed over the years.

As more companies realize the benefits of an API-first mindset and treating their APIs as products, there is a growing need for good API product management practices to make a company’s API strategy a reality. However, API product management is a relatively new field with little established knowledge on what is API product management and what a PM should be doing to ensure their API platform is successful.

Microapps are modular pieces of software that perform a specific action – as opposed to a larger monolithic application that incorporates many features. Although they run independently like any app or website, microapps are small, simple, autonomous, and they allow you to perform a single task without necessarily leaving the environment you’re currently using. Since they’re modular, connecting a microapp to an existing application is an easy way to extend and simplify its functionality.

We’re reviewing the 5 Best API Management Solutions. APIs are the glue that binds the digital world together. Internal APIs allow data to flow elegantly through your tech stack, while external APIs allow developers to build applications that are secure and reliable on top of third-party services. APIs are generally easy to use, as long as they are well-written and equally well documented.

Kong Enterprise provides customers with the fastest, most scalable and flexible API management solution in the market. One of Kong’s main advantages is the ability to quickly deploy and integrate with a customer’s ecosystem of already-deployed solutions for identity management and monitoring. As customers choose Kong to drive the decentralization of their applications, it’s critical to empower teams for end-to-end deployment while maintaining security and compliance.

With so many SQL tutorials available online, it’s easy to get confused about SQL server best practices. Start with the following five suggestions so you can add security to your server while optimizing its performance.

A year ago, Harry Bagdi wrote an amazingly helpful blog post on observability for microservices. And by comparing titles, it becomes obvious that my blog post draws inspiration from his work. To be honest, that statement on drawing inspiration from Harry extends well beyond this one blog post – but enough about that magnificent man and more on why I chose to revisit his blog. When he published it, our company was doing an amazing job at one thing: API gateways.

The differences between microservices and web services deal with different concepts in modern application design. A microservice is a small, independent, application that performs a highly focused service as well as possible. A web service is an internet-based interface that makes the “services” of one application available to applications running on different platforms.