Data Privacy is becoming the main buzz word in technical circles day by day. Sometime back, we thought that illegal gathering personal identifiable information from data servers can happen only in James Bond and Mission Impossible movies. But technology is changing quite rapidly and in this era of global virtual connectivity, customer private information is becoming more and more insecure. The news of customer data getting misused by data analytics companies, data theft from major banks, etc.

As a company known for our anomaly detection, we know a thing or two about spotting irregularities. So as we reached the end of 2019, we couldn’t help but think back on the 2010s and the anomalies that shook the world. Once we got to listing them, it really became tough to pick just 10. Ultimately, after much debate, we ranked them based on their impact, newsworthiness and how utterly unexpected they were.

Business users haven’t adopted the dashboard wholeheartedly. Some of that is history, some of that is data illiteracy, and some of that is the fault of dashboard platforms themselves - how and who they’re designed for.

One of the challenges with being a fast-growing SaaS vendor is that you're so consumed with running your business that you're unlikely to stop and take a breath. If you’re growing quickly, there can also be a perception that you don’t really need to look at what’s happening in your business. Instead, you may divert resources to building a new product or marketing rather than actually thinking about your business.

In just a couple of days, the new year will be upon us and the California Customer Privacy Act (CCPA) will be in full effect. This means, going forward, businesses that collect personal data from people who reside in the Golden State must now honor their requests to access, delete, and opt out of sharing or selling their information.

As I look back at 2019 and all the amazing things we’ve achieved as a team, it was a big year for us at Kong. We’ve grown tremendously in just the past year alone, doubling to more than 160 employees, reaching 170 Kong Enterprise customers, hitting 100 million downloads of our open source Kong Gateway and running more than 1 million instances of Kong per month across the world.