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Announcing General Availability of Kong Gateway 3.0

Kong Gateway 3.0 is an important milestone that introduces the next evolution of our cloud-native API platform. Both the enterprise and open source editions of Kong Gateway 3.0 are available now from your favorite distribution channels. With Kong Gateway 3.0, we are introducing many powerful features that deliver the following key benefits:

Kong Konnect Adds Support for Multi-Geo, Dynamic Client Registration, Custom Reporting, and More

Christian Heidenreich and Sunny Xia also contributed to this post. We’re excited to announce a new release of Kong Konnect, the end-to-end SaaS API lifecycle management platform. This release introduces a number of brand new features as well as improve existing features that empower you to efficiently publish, consume, secure, analyze, and manage APIs and services across all your applications in any environment. Read on to learn more about the new capabilities in Kong Konnect.

Minimize Heap Allocations in Node.js

Memory management has always been a source of huge concern in Computer Science. Each piece of software is assigned a small portion of a computer’s finite memory; this memory has to be well-managed (carefully allocated and deallocated). With its efficient automatic garbage collection mechanism, Node.js tries to handle the tedious task of memory management and free up developers to work on other tasks.

Creating a Progressive Web App (PWA) with Flutter

So, you just finished building that application that’s going to change the world, you’ve submitted the Android apk to the Google Play Store and the iOS ipa to the Apple App Store, and you’re awaiting review. But when you check your email, you discover that your iOS app has been rejected. Given the urgency of releasing the app, what do you do now? Well, the good news is that your application was built with Flutter, which is a great tool for creating Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).

Distributed tracing with Envoy, Kuma, Grafana Agent, and Jaeger

As a cloud service provider, observability is a critical subject as it's strongly related to the availability of the services running on the platform. We need to understand everything that is happening on our platform to troubleshoot errors as fast as possible and improve performance issues. A year ago, while the platform was still in private beta, we faced a tough reliability issue: users were facing random 500 errors when accessing their applications.

What is Open Source and How to Get Started?

Software engineering is an exciting field that offers various roles and responsibilities to individuals. Some prominent roles are developer, quality assurance engineer, project manager, product manager, DevOps, and many more. Each of these roles also has sub-roles. For example, we have front-end, back-end, and full-stack developers in development. In testing, we have manual testing, automation, unit testing, and end-to-end testing.

3 Intriguing Data Annotation Use Cases that Zastra is Ready to Solve

Data annotation is one of the principal factors in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). As technology is advancing at a fast pace, almost all industries will need to make use of data annotations to keep up with the trends. The use cases for data annotation and encompassing computer vision are enormous.

The Top Three Entangled Trends in Data Architectures: Data Mesh, Data Fabric, and Hybrid Architectures

Data teams have the impossible task of delivering everything (data and workloads) everywhere (on premise and in all clouds) all at once (with little to no latency). They are being bombarded with literature about seemingly independent new trends like data mesh and data fabric while dealing with the reality of having to work with hybrid architectures. Each of these trends claim to be complete models for their data architectures to solve the “everything everywhere all at once” problem.

The Data Challenge Nobody's Talking About: An Interview from CDAO UK

Chief Data & Analytics Officer UK (CDAO UK) is the United Kingdom’s premier event for senior data and analytics executives. The three-day event, with more than 200 attendees and 50+ industry-leading speakers, was packed with case studies, thought leadership, and practical advice around data culture, data quality and governance, building a data workforce, data strategy, metadata management, AI/MLOps, self-service strategies, and more.

Modern Marketing Data Stack: Best Practices from Analyzing Snowflake's Customer Base

Are you efficiently unifying, modeling, analyzing, and activating all the data you need to drive impactful marketing campaigns and customer experiences? For years, marketing teams have struggled to operate from a single view of the customer and their business, essential to powering personalized experiences and measuring impact on key KPIs such as sales, growth, and profitability. Today, only half of all marketers have a unified view of the customer.