Observability is catching on these days as the de-facto way to provide visibility into essential aspects of systems. It would be unwise for you not to leverage it with Kuma service mesh — the place that allows your services to communicate with the rest of the world. However, many observability solutions restrict themselves to the works: simple metric collection that provides them with dashboards. Expecting users to simply sit on their chairs and look at those metrics all day long is an invitation to failure, as we know that one can only do so much when they get tired and bored.

In this Kongcast episode, Scott Lowe, principal field engineer at Kong, takes us back to basics by answering what a service mesh does and when to use a service mesh, among other common mesh-related questions.

Viktor Gamov takes a closer look at traffic #ingress in #Istio and explores the native Istio Gateway feature. #KongBuilders is a bi-weekly livestream series that takes our #developer-focused toolsets and puts them on display in the best venue possible – building applications and connecting workloads.

Principal product manager of Insomnia, Wils Dawson covers the latest and greatest innovations with Insomnia, the industry-leading API development tool for designing, debugging and testing. Along with recently delivered features, you’ll hear about our vision, strategy and roadmap. Don’t blink — you’ll want to catch everything.

Legacy API Gateways were not designed to connect microservices within and across clouds, across protocols and with sufficient performance and scalability. This demo shows how to run Kong Gateway on a combination of VMs and Kubernetes clusters and administer it all from a central Control Plane.

In this Kongcast Episode, Chinmay Gaikwad, tech evangelist at Epsagon, explains why metrics and logs aren’t sufficient for companies with a microservices architecture. Instead, Chinmay recommends leveraging distributed tracing for optimal observability.

Architects are tasked with seeing that organizations meet their objectives with speed and quality, for a reasonable cost. This simple mission is anything but simple. Security, analytics, and everything in-between present themselves as forces to be acknowledged and considered. Building APIs and Microservices present new puzzles to be solved for architects. Or do they? In this session, we attempt to detect patterns that present themselves in organizations, which have their root in human elements. Yet reliably manifest in technology.

Envoy is a key part of a number of service meshes currently on the market, including Istio and the Kuma CNCF Sandbox project. As such, it is often helpful to better understand how Envoy is configured to operate as a data plane in a service mesh. In this session, you’ll learn about the basics of Envoy configuration, like listeners, filters, clusters, and endpoints.

Organizations don’t move as fast as technology. That’s why in this Kongcast episode, Aaron Weikle, Founder & CEO at MS3, explains how to continue supporting your organization’s legacy-based services as they continue to add the next generation of services. If you're planning on migrating legacy applications to microservices this episode if for you!

As the number of microservices increases and deployed across private and public networks, security is critical. Leveraging a Service Mesh guarantees the security of applications and services without burdening developers to build security, freeing them to focus on business logic and allowing organizations to meet and prove their compliance and security requirements. TIMECODES #ZeroTrust #ServiceMesh #mtls #OPA #KongMesh #KongSummit