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Insomnia 10.1 Adds New Collection Runner CLI, In-App Invites, and More

As a follow-up to our recent Kong Insomnia v10 release that shipped with an unlimited and free Collection Runner and one week after announcing our official SCIM support for automated user provisioning, we're now excited to announce Insomnia v10.1. This release ships with the general availability of the CLI to use the Collection Runner with CI/CD automation, a new in-app invite wizard that simplifies working with collaborators, and many other improvements.

Intro to Service Catalog | Kong Konnect

In this video, Miko Bautista, Staff Product Manager at Kong, introduces the Kong Konnect Service Catalog, your ultimate system of record for managing and discovering all the services and APIs running in your infrastructure. The Kong Konnect Service Catalog helps platform teams gain comprehensive visibility into their entire service ecosystem, whether APIs are powered by Kong Gateway or external systems like AWS API Gateway, Kubernetes, or serverless architectures.

How to Use Lambda Functions in Python

Lambda functions in Python are a powerful way to create small, anonymous functions on the fly. These functions are typically used for short, simple operations where the overhead of a full function definition would be unnecessary. While traditional functions are defined using the def keyword, Lambda functions are defined using the lambda keyword and are directly integrated into lines of code. In particular, they are often used as arguments for built-in functions.

Best Testing Practices in Node.js

Testing is a critical aspect of software development, as it ensures your application works as intended and meets quality standards. In Node.js, testing is essential for the early detection of bugs in public endpoints. However, there are many challenges associated with testing in Node. External dependencies, asynchronous operations, and several possible input scenarios make writing tests a daunting task.

Using Moesif with Middy and Serverless for AWS Apps

See the GitHub repository for the source code of this article’s example project. Serverless is a popular framework to build serverless apps using AWS Lambda on the Node.js runtime. Serverless automatically orchestrates necessary resources on AWS and can scaffold a basic project for you that you can build up on. You can solely focus on your application’s core logic, development, and your Lambda functions.

Streamlining APIOps: Automate API Management with Terraform

Discover how the new Terraform provider for Kong Konnect empowers platform teams to automate the deployment of a feature-rich API platform. In this webinar, we’ll walk through a real-world scenario, showing how a fictional organization sets up a federated API platform on Kong Konnect and automates its provisioning process using Terraform. Join us to learn best practices and unleash the full potential of APIOps automation with Kong Konnect and Terraform.

Find the Best Metered Billing Software for Your Business

Did you know that 72% of SaaS companies plan to adopt usage-based pricing in the near future? It shows a growing demand for flexible, consumption-based billing models. If you want your business to stay ahead of the curve, you need the right tools to capitalize on this trend. Metered billing aligns revenue with customer consumption. It offers numerous benefits like improved customer satisfaction, increased trust, and reduced churn.

APIs and Finance: How Banks Use APIs

Application programming interfaces (APIs) do a lot of behind-the-scenes work that you might never notice. When you look at the weather forecast on your smartphone, you get updated info because of an API. You rely on APIs when you sign into your email account, get driving directions, and book airplane tickets.

Building Livewire Components with Volt

In the past, when building Livewire components for our Laravel applications, we needed to keep our backend and frontend code split up into separate files. This can sometimes get a little confusing, especially with larger projects. But with Volt, we can now build single-file Livewire components where the backend and frontend code coexist in the same file. In this article, we'll look at what Volt is and how Volt components differ from traditional Livewire components.

The Five Pillars of Customer Identity and Access Management #WordsUnplugged

Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), a subgenre of IAM, enables organizations to scale and ensure secure, seamless digital experiences for their customers, while collecting and managing customer identity data purposefully. Powerful CIAM solutions provide a variety of key features including customer registration, social logins, account verification, self-service account management, consent and preference management, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and adaptive authentication as well as other nice-to-have features.