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Joining us today are two senior executives from Okta, the Identity and Access Management Service, that you’re probably already using given all of the work from home stuff going on. In a rolling discussion we cover product manager and DevEx best practices, including: making developers successful through compassion & not just empathy, how to end of life an API, why storytelling’s important across the whole company, what the different roles are in the DevEx universe, and many more.

Joining us today are two senior executives from Okta, the Identity and Access Management Service, that you’re probably already using given all of the work from home stuff going on. In a rolling discussion we cover product manager and DevEx best practices, including: making developers successful through compassion & not just empathy, how to end of life an API, why storytelling’s important across the whole company, what the different roles are in the DevEx universe, and many more.

In today’s post, we’re focusing on digital transformation trends for 2021 with a special emphasis on app development. Despite the difficulties we’ve experienced in 2020, it’s clear that the coronavirus has dramatically accelerated the pace of digital transformation.

Businesses migrating their SAP environments to Google Cloud do so for a number of reasons. Most cite the agility, scalability and security advantages of migrating SAP workloads to Google Cloud; many also focus on improved uptime and performance. At some point, most businesses also want to explore the idea that there's a fortune locked up in their business data—and that the cloud holds the key.

We software developers have been hitting on all cylinders lately. I mean, this industry is hot. If coders were singers we’d be Adele hitting the high notes in Madison Square Garden (you know, back when concerts were a thing).We’d be AH-nold sniffing out the bad guys in Commando. John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

There’s never been a more important time to pay attention to APIs. Given the impacts of a global pandemic, organizations are increasing their reliance on digital technology. Tools that support API development, testing, monitoring, and documentation have become crucial to enabling the success of digital initiatives.

A DMZ – Demilitarized Zone – is a military term, roughly summarized, as an area between two adversaries established as a buffer in order to reduce, or eliminate, the possibility of further conflict. In networking, the term usually refers to an area that acts as a buffer between two segregated networks. Here is a simplified visualization.

We are happy to announce release 2.2 of our flagship open source API gateway! Those were some busy three months since the release of Kong Gateway 2.1! We have pushed a number of patch releases in the 2.1 series, we’ve had our first fully-digital Kong Summit, and of course, we’ve been very busy building new features that are now shipping in Kong Gateway 2.2!