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Unpacking Distributed Applications: What Are They? And How Do They Work?

Mar 19, 2024 By Paul Vergilis In Kong
Distributed architectures have become an integral part of modern digital landscape. With the proliferation of cloud computing, big data, and highly available systems, traditional monolithic architectures have given way to more distributed, scalable, and resilient designs. In this blog, we look at what makes an application distributed and how distributed applications work to bring about high availability, scalability, and resilience.
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Managing the Lifecycle of Gateways in Kubernetes Using Gateway API

Mar 14, 2024 By Kong In Kong
Managing your Gateways on Kubernetes has historically been a very manual process, usually involving the use of Helm for operations like upgrades. At Kong we've been working on the Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) to revolutionize the experience of operating Gateways in production. Say goodbye to the cumbersome, manual processes of managing Gateways. Our operator transforms the configuration and lifecycle management experience, automating the tedious and complex operations that used to bog you down.
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Sending Traffic Across Namespaces with Gateway API

Mar 8, 2024 By Grzegorz Burzyński In Kong
In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to use Gateway API HTTPRoutes to route traffic to workloads deployed in different namespaces in a single Kubernetes cluster — a process that’s easier than ever. Previously, we only had Ingress API to define ingress routing rules. It served us well, but it also had its flaws and limitations that we had to overcome, sometimes in a hacky way.
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Hybrid Infrastructure Load Balancing with Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh

Mar 7, 2024 By Kong In Kong
Kong’s Wanny Morellato and Deepak Mohandas recently joined Justin and Autumn on the ShipIt podcast to talk hybrid infrastructure with Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh. They unravel the complexities of hybrid infrastructure at scale, discussing the processes, strategies, and philosophies that drive continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and more.
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API Platform Engineering Maturity Model

Mar 6, 2024 By Jordi Fernandez Moledo In Kong
APIs have become fundamental to the digital economy, enabling integration and communication between different systems and services. A mature API platform is not just a technical achievement but a strategic asset that can drive innovation, efficiency, and growth. However, reaching this level of maturity requires a clear understanding of the stages involved and a commitment to evolving practices and strategies that best suit the organization's unique needs and goals.
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Manage API Access More Seamlessly

Mar 1, 2024 By Ella Kuzmenko In Kong
The Kong Konnect team recently launched the Portal Management API, which allows users to manage their Developer Portals with one API. That means you can easily manage your portal settings, appearance, application registrations, and registration settings easier than before. In this blog, I’ll walk you through two scenarios that we expect the portal management API can help streamline.
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Announcing Insomnia's New Storage Control To Mandate Local-Only, Cloud, or Git Storage for APIs in the Organization

Feb 28, 2024 By Marco Palladino In Kong
Today we’re excited to announce that Kong Insomnia has shipped Storage Control, a new enterprise capability that allows administrators in an Insomnia organization to mandate what type of backend storage developers are allowed to use when creating API assets like API collections, API specifications, environments configuration, authentications data, and more.
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Kong Konnect Data Plane Node Autoscaling with Karpenter on Amazon EKS 1.29

Feb 26, 2024 By Claudio Acquaviva In Kong
In this post, we're going to explore Karpenter, the ultimate solution for Node Autoscaling. Karpenter provides a cost-effective capability to implement your Kong Konnect Data Plane layer using the best EC2 Instances Types options available for your Kubernetes Nodes. See the previous posts in this series for more on Data Plane Elasticity and Pod Autoscaling with VPA, HPA, and Node Autoscaling with Cluster Autoscaler on Amazon EKS 1.29.
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Transparency and Trust Through Kong Gateway Performance Benchmarks and Open Source Test Suites

Feb 26, 2024 By Kong In Kong
In the rapidly evolving landscape of API management, understanding the raw performance and reliability of your API gateway is not just an expectation — it's a necessity. At Kong, we're dedicated to ensuring our users have access to concrete, actionable data to guide their operational and development strategies.
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