In this episode of Kongcast, I spoke with Grant McKeen and Jonathan White from IntegrationWorks about how open banking and BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) work with Kong Gateway to create simplicity from complexity in the banking and financial services industry. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest new episodes.

gRPC is a remote procedure call framework that has been widely adopted among cloud native applications. It is an attractive choice for engineers needing more capabilities than what REST APIs provide. However, observability and testing tools for gRPC are few and far between. Because of this, triaging or understanding application behavior is potentially time-consuming and overly burdensome.

2021 was a busy year for insurers. Beyond supporting customers through an ongoing global health crisis, they’ve also faced increased competition from a growing number of insurtechs and pressure from customers to deliver a seamless, digital-first experience—all in addition to ensuring the overall customer experience is positive. All of these changes in the industry call for insurers to be more agile and open to change and innovation. 2022 is sure to continue to disrupt the status quo.

In older surveys, data scientists reported that data cleansing occupied around 60 percent of their time and that it was generally the “least enjoyable” part of their job. A few years later, data scientists are still putting a considerable amount of their working hours into data cleansing efforts.

From a high-level point of view, data migration is simple: moving data between two or more locations. Yet, in 2021, data migration is much more than moving a folder from one filing cabinet to another. In practice, migrating data is one of the trickiest and most complex data management initiatives for any IT department, especially if you want to follow data migration best practices.

When it comes to cloud data integration there are many benefits. However, although there are many benefits of cloud data integration for your company, it also comes with its own set of challenges. In the business world of today, cloud technologies have become increasingly more important in the evolving business and IT landscapes. Cloud technologies are used more and more because of the convenience, performance and cost-effectiveness they provide to companies compared to on-premises solutions.

In an increasingly globalized world, businesses are exposed to risks more than ever before. With shrinking profit margins and increased competition, organizations need to be on their toes all the time to survive. That's where the importance of data comes in. The jury might still be out on whether data is the new oil. But the growing market of data analytics outsourcing tells you that more and more companies are investing in data analytic solutions to gain a competitive edge.

Many organizations that already rely on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) to integrate applications question the necessity of an API management system. The question of which to use over often confuses. So which one is the best choice? The answer is both. Here we’ll discuss why an Integration Platform as a Service alone isn’t enough. Companies will need to embrace both iPaaS and API management to achieve the true agility and innovation they need to remain competitive.

Keeping up to the pace of software changes with good acceptance tests is challenging, and can often put a lot of pressure on the relationships between teams. Being able to detect issues faster and earlier in the development cycle is crucial to shipping good software quickly, but communicating those changes is always challenging -- and if software changes, so must the tests.