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Insomnia Stream 2022 06 14 - Electron Remote for Plugins, Database Diffing

Today on the stream we looked at a solution for using the (now deprecated) functionality of the Electron Remote package by utilizing the IPC that Electron provides. Later we go through an exercise where we diff the raw database for Insomnia's internals. Fun stuff! A weekly stream focused on Insomnia's open source community.

APIOps in action: 3 months to 48 hours

CMA CGM is a global player in sea, land, air, and logistics solutions, serving 420 of the world’s commercial ports and operating 285 shipping lines with 580 vessels. Supporting such complex international logistics requires a sophisticated and reliable IT infrastructure, underpinned by APIs that unlock the data needed to flow across the ecosystem of internal IT, partners, and customers.

MicroProfile Reactive Messaging | Grace Jansen | IBM | Kongcast Episode 18

In this episode of Kongcast, Viktor talks with Grace Jansen, Developer Advocate at IBM about stateful workloads in a cloud environment, bringing down the monolith, what does 'cloud native' really mean, and how easy it can be to add reactive behaviors to your application using event-driven architecture and tools like Kafka and MicroProfile Reactive Messaging.

Kuma 1.7.0 and Kong Mesh 1.8.0 Released with Builtin Gateway for Cross-Mesh Communication, ARM Support, cert-manger, and More!

We’re excited to announce the latest release for both Kuma and Kong Mesh. This cycle, we focused on simplifying enterprise-wide mesh deployments. We strongly suggest upgrading, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes to service mesh.

Next-Level API Security | Giora Engel | Neosec | Kongcast Episode 17

In this episode of Kongcast Kaitlyn talks with Giora Engel, Co-Founder and CEO from Neosec, about modern API threads, protecting APIs and their partnership with Kong. Hosted by Viktor Gamov and Kaitlyn Barnard, we interview software developers and technology leaders at the top of their game every other week. We’ll also give you the tools, tactics and strategies you need to take your distributed architectures to the next level. Kongcast goes beyond the buzzwords and dissects real-life applications and success stories so that you can tackle your biggest connectivity challenges.

Kong Insomnia 2022.4: Now With Official GitLab Support

Git Sync lets you collaborate with your team on Design Documents that you create in Kong Insomnia. In the last release, we updated the way that Git Sync works for GitHub. We now leverage the OpenID Connect protocol and OAuth2 to make it easier for you to set up Git Sync. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re bringing that same ease of setup to GitLab repositories as well!

Kong Ingress Controller 2.4: Weighted Load Balancing, Support for TCP, UDP and HTTP Routes

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.4! Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API. In this release, we’re adding weighted load balancing and support for TCP and UDP routes, as well as some much needed quality-of-life features for our customers.

Building a geocoding plugin for the Kong Gateway using Python

Recently, I came across a request from one of our community users looking for a Kong plugin that could look up address details based on a few location search keywords. There are many libraries that support geocoding. I decided to pick up a Python Library as they are simple to use — and the Kong Gateway supports plugins written in Python since version 2.3.