Stay on top of issues and easily forecast usage for Ably-powered realtime applications in your out-of-the-box Datadog dashboards. Cloud-based applications providing live user experiences at scale need to measure their realtime infrastructure’s state and health at all times. Imagine a customer support chat system supporting thousands of businesses or a live sport event delivering updates to millions of fans.

In this guide, Viktor Gamov (Principle Developer Advocate at Kong) will dive into the power of Kong Konnect, the SaaS managed control plane for Kong Gateway designed for seamless API management. We’ll explore how to use Kong Konnect to configure external services, enable application registration, configure Dev Portal, use credentials to manage services access, and replicate configurations across different environments with just a few clicks. Let’s get started!

As a developer supporting a growing business, you’ll likely spend a lot of time thinking about scaling. We live in a wonderful time to be solving scale problems. Computers are so fast and capable that many of the development decisions you make when writing backend systems won’t noticeably impact performance(until your app reaches an absolutely massive scale). If this weren’t the case, we’d all be writing web servers in C.