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Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server Technical Breakdown

"Too much information running through my brain." When The Police sang this opening line on their 1981 album Ghost in the Machine, they weren't thinking about artificial intelligence, but the sentiment perfectly captures the state of modern AI. The song warns of an overload of data that parallels how modern AI agents process extensive collections of messages and data.

What I Learned From Building an eBPF-Based Traffic Capture Application

I just finished building Speedscale’s eBPF-based component to capture and analyze network traffic in a Kubernetes cluster, and it forced me to confront some uncomfortable truths about observability. While there were certainly some challenges along the way, particularly in dealing with Go applications, the approach was relatively straightforward.

What Is an API Gateway? Fundamentals, Benefits, and Future Trends

If you're working with APIs, chances are that the term "API gateway" has popped up in a conversation or web search at least once. Although they are not new, many developers that are new to creating APIs (or deploying them into a production environment) haven't heard of them or don't fully understand what the technology does. In the most simple terms, an API gateway is a single entry point where API traffic comes in and is then proxied to your actual APIs.

Bug Bashing: How To Run A High-Impact Testing Blitz

Software Development is progressing faster than ever, as software teams are now able to regularly release new features in cycles that often last a week to a day. As a result of this cycle, bug tracking and QA processes are sometimes not enough to prevent there from being bugs in place before a problem arises. When these bugs enter production, they cause a lot of frustration among users, downtime, and a large amount of time being spent trying to fix the problem which makes users angry.

[Workshop 201] Beyond the Gateway: Governing Secure and Observable AI Agents

Join our 201-level session, "Beyond the Gateway: Governing Secure and Observable AI Agents," to move from managing simple AI calls to governing autonomous systems. Building on 101's foundation, this workshop provides the advanced blueprint to secure agent connections with granular, identity-aware policies and robust tool-use governance, ensuring you control what agents can access and which actions they can perform. We'll also dive into how to observe these autonomous interactions, using real-time behavior tracing and cost analysis to maintain performance and compliance.

API-First Development: The Complete Guide

In today’s world of software development, API-first has become more than a trend it is a best practice that allows teams to build scalable, modular and best of all future-ready applications. In an API-first approach, the Application Programming Interface (APIs) are not an afterthought, they are envisioned, documented and agreed upon before the development of an project in begins.

DreamFactory DynamoDB: Instant REST APIs for AWS DynamoDB Without Code

Amazon DynamoDB is a powerful, fully managed NoSQL database service that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Yet despite its impressive capabilities, accessing DynamoDB from applications often requires wrestling with verbose SDK code, managing authentication complexities, and implementing repetitive CRUD operations manually. What if you could eliminate all that boilerplate and instantly expose your DynamoDB tables through a secure, documented REST API in just minutes?

Types Of Regression Testing In Software Testing Explained

The user experience of an app can often generate impacts in unexpected areas. As the industry shifts to a rapid development cycle with more new features being released rapidly and a growing number of code changes each month, development teams find it difficult to deliver new capabilities while also maintaining stability. The question is not whether regression testing is necessary. It is how to decide which form of regression testing is best for a given change.

Automate Pact Test Code Reviews with AI | SmartBear MCP Server

Discover how to perform expert-level Pact contract testing reviews in seconds using SmartBear MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools directly in your IDE with GitHub Copilot (or any generative AI that supports MCP)! You’ll learn how to automatically identify and fix common issues in your Pact tests, including: Over-specified test contracts Incorrect HTTP client usage Missing provider states Overuse of matchers Tests not reflecting real API behavior.

What is Apache Kafka? Guide for Beginners

Apache Kafka powers real-time data at companies processing substantial event volumes daily. The new KRaft architecture makes getting started easier than ever. The platform handles massive data flows for more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies (Apache Kafka), according to the Apache Software Foundation. Event streaming represents a fundamental shift in data processing. Traditional databases save snapshots. Event streaming captures data in motion. It's the difference between a photo and live video.