Plus recognized as an Outperformer (again)! Kong Mesh has been named a Leader and Outperformer in the 2023 GigaOm® Radar for Service Mesh report. We feel this awesome achievement highlights Kong's ongoing commitment to innovation and ease of use in the service mesh space.

In this post, we’ll see how ChatGPT can be used to reinvigorate APIs by creating an OpenAPI specification for an existing API that has existing documentation.

API gateways serve as the final checkpoint for your APIs. As such, gateway configuration is critical to ensuring that your APIs remain secure, available, and responsive. Ensuring that all changes to these configurations are intentional and follow your organization's best practices is key to maintaining a robust API gateway deployment. decK 1.28 adds a brand new feature that allows you to natively validate your gateway configurations against custom rule sets.

The latest release of Kong Mesh (version 2.5) brings many new features that push the envelope and make Kong Mesh the logical choice of a service mesh to meet your objectives. In this blog, we'll break down these new features and provide tailored use cases to illustrate how Kong Mesh 2.5 can elevate your service mesh experience. We'll focus on three main categories: flexibility, resiliency, and security.

In token-based architecture, tokens represent the client’s entitlement to access protected resources. Access tokens (or bearer tokens as they're commonly known) are issued by authorization servers after successful user authentication. The tokens are passed as credentials in the request to the target APIs which inform the API that the bearer of the token is authorized to access the API and perform certain actions.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 3.5 for Open Source (OSS). This release enables Javascript developers to extend the Gateway via the WebAssembly layer which is currently in Beta, delivers some enormous observability enhancements, and unlocks top-end performance. Keep reading for the latest on Kong Gateway 3.5 for OSS!

Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.5 is packed with security features to support the use cases demanded by our enterprise customers through major improvements in Secrets Management integrations and our Open-ID Connect (OIDC) plugin. Additionally, we’ve added key security updates for a few of our AWS integrations.