We built Kong to handle any API at any level of scale, but running APIs at scale means storing and managing data at scale. That’s why we’ve always recommended Apache Cassandra for the biggest Kong deployments. Cassandra is powerful and proven, but it does require some skill to install and operate – which is why we’re excited to hear that Datastax is making Cassandra easy to use at any level of scale with DataStax Astra, a Database-as-a-Service built on Apache Cassandra.

“When you’re working from home you should try and do it systematically and methodologically”, says John Bennett a veteran work-at-homer. “It’s a lot like running a business from home, which is what I do”. John night know a thing or two about it, since he’s been working from home in upstate New Hampshire for the last 20 years.

With increasingly draconian measures worldwide aimed at keeping people at home to quell the spread of COVID-19, companies of all shapes and sizes and across the majority of industries are finding themselves in the same situation – how to equip and empower their workforce for mobile working. More than 5 million companies around the world will experience an impact at a cost to the global economy exceeding US$1 trillion.

2020 isn’t half done and society has already changed fundamentally. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many people into unemployment because customers can’t visit their stores anymore. When revenue drops, business owners have to ask themselves: What part of their workforce is crucial to operating the company? For companies that sell software services to developers, you could get the impression that a “developer relations” (DevRel) team could be critical for that company.

We are very proud to announce some very important community updates for Kuma, with the goal of making Kuma more open and more inclusive to the broader open source ecosystem: The Kuma project now ships with open governance guidelines! This makes Kuma the only Envoy-based control plane for service mesh with an open governance policy in the CNCF landscape.

This is a companion piece to Jeremy Glassenberg’s talk at the March 2020, API and IPA Meetup in San Francisco. The full video of his talk is below and on Moesif’s YouTube Channel. As popular web services extend their developer platforms for partners to integrate directly into their interfaces, design trends are forming from experiences in the world of embedded integrations.

As APIs handle enormous amounts of data of a widely varying type, the critical question for any data provider is how specifically to secure this data. An authentication method that gives power to developers to build applications for all of their needs, determines who could access the APIs to protect sensitive data and ensure the request aren’t tempered. Authentication is when an entity proves an identity. Simply put, authentication is the act of verifying that you are who you claim to be.

There is no suprise that the applications in the mordern microservice architecture communicate by using all sorts of APIs, RESTful, GraphQL and more. API Gateways provides authentication, rate-limiting and access control between applications that expose their APIs and the consumer of the APIs are the bedrock of API infrastructure. Simple architecture which bundles API related functionality inside a single component provides load balancing, caching and ability to scale to ensure high availability.