6 Strategy Elements for Building Cloud Native Applications
The cloud native paradigm for application development has come to consist of microservices architecture, containerized services, orchestration, and distributed management. Many companies are already on...
View ArticleIntroducing Kong’s New GTM Partner Program!
Navigating the transition from monolith to microservices can be an ambitious undertaking for any organization. Today, we’re launching our new Kong GTM Partner Program to create a global ecosystem of...
View ArticleJoin our New Kong Champions Program!
Today, we’re excited to launch the Kong Champions Program, a new program that recognizes Kong’s “super” users and contributors – community members who go above and beyond in supporting Kong’s open...
View ArticleAnnouncing Kong’s Integration with Vault!
Today we’re excited to show how Kong Enterprise customers can utilize our new plugin for HashiCorp Vault for authentication and secrets management. Like the Terraform integration released last year,...
View ArticleKong 0.35 Released – Featuring Integration with HashiCorp Vault!
Today we’re thrilled to announce general availability for Kong Enterprise 0.35. This release of Kong Enterprise contains numerous new features, including a new integration with HashiCorp Vault, huge...
View ArticleKong 1.2 Released! Major Performance Improvements and Newly Open Sourced Plugins
Kong 1.2 Released with Major Performance Improvements and Newly Open Sourced Plugins! Today, we’re excited to unveil the latest release of our flagship open source offering – Kong 1.2! In this release,...
View ArticleGet Sent to Kong Summit 2019 with this Dear Boss Letter
Kong Summit 2019 will be here before you know it, and we hope to see you October 2-3 in San Francisco, California, along with Kong’s community of engineers, architects, and microservices thought...
View ArticleKong Celebrates Pride 2019!
This year’s Pride month was particularly special as we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots — a series of powerful protests in 1969 that launched the gay liberation movement and...
View ArticleKong Welcomes Depop as a Customer to the Kong Family!
As we grow our footprint globally, we’re gaining strong momentum in the UK. We recently added several fast-growing, London-based organizations to the Kong Enterprise community. These organizations are...
View ArticleKong Makes it onto Forbes’ List of Next-Billion Dollar Startups!
This year has been momentous in Kong’s journey as we have tripled in size, outgrown multiple offices and announced a successful Series C round. Today, we celebrate yet another huge milestone with the...
View ArticleKarhoo Hails Kong as its API Vendor of Choice
The UK continues to be a growing hotbed for tech innovation. At Kong, we’re seeing fast adoption for our Kong Enterprise platform in the UK from organizations across a wide range of industries,...
View ArticleCargill Bridges Legacy and Cloud Native with Kong Enterprise
As we continue to expand across new industries and regions, we’re excited to share Cargill’s digital transformation story and how it turned to Kong Enterprise to create a unified API platform across...
View Article10 Ways Microservices Create New Security Challenges
In the current microservices DevOps environment, there are tough new and evolving challenges for developers and teams to consider on top of the more traditional ones. From worsening versions of already...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Kong Summit Diversity Scholarship Program!
We are proud of the diverse group of individuals that makes up the Kong Community. That’s why we are committed to making sure Kong Summit is an inclusive event for all of our community members. We are...
View ArticleS3 Breach Prevention: Best Practices for Enterprise Cloud Security
When a data breach occurs involving a cloud service, the impulsive reaction is to denounce using the cloud (at least for sensitive information). Since cloud security is not widely understood, it may be...
View ArticleBuilding Metrics Pipeline for High-Performance Data Collection
This is part three in a series discussing the metrics pipeline powering Kong Cloud. In previous posts in this series, we’ve discussed how Kong Cloud collects, ships, and stores high volumes of metrics...
View ArticleKong 1.3 Released! Native gRPC Proxying, Upstream Mutual TLS Authentication,...
Today, we are excited to announce the release of Kong 1.3! Our engineering team and awesome community has contributed numerous features and improvements to this release. Based on the success of the 1.2...
View ArticleKong and Istio: Setting up Service Mesh on Kubernetes with Kiali for...
Service mesh is redefining the way we think about security, reliability, and observability when it comes to service-to-service communication. In a previous blog post about service mesh, we took a deep...
View ArticleHow to Manage your gRPC Services with Kong
With the 1.3 release, Kong is now able to natively manage and proxy gRPC services. In this blog post, we’ll explain what gRPC is and how to manage your gRPC services with Kong. What is gRPC? gRPC is a...
View ArticleIntroducing Kuma: The Universal Service Mesh
We are excited to announce the release of a new open source project, Kuma – a modern, universal control plane for service mesh! Kuma is based on Envoy, a powerful proxy designed for cloud native...
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