Kongcast: The API Connectivity Series

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.

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In this Kongcast episode, Henrik Blixt, Product Manager for Argo at Intuit, gives an introduction to Argo, an open source tool for Kubernetes and incubating project of CNCF.

Get Started with Argo: https://argoproj.github.io/

Join Us At ArgoCon 2022 (CFP open!): https://events.linuxfoundation.org/argocon/

Watch the video version to see Herik demo Argo: https://youtu.be/B5TJ8PpNQDM

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In this Kongcast episode, Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at VMware, dives into how Spring changed the way developers build Java applications and introduces you to Spring Native.

Get Started with Spring: https://spring.io/guides

Learn More: https://spring.io/blog

Watch the video version to see Josh demo Spring Native: https://youtu.be/Gx-ixdDE4mc

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In this Kongcast episode, Tim Hinrichs, co-founder, and CTO of Styra, dives into how the Open Policy Agent (OPA) helps solve authorization policy problems across the stack.

Download OPA: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/#running-opa

Download Kuma: https://kuma.io/install/latest/

Try Styra DAS for Free: https://www.styra.com/das-free?hsLang=en

Request a Kong Mesh Demo: https://konghq.com/request-demo-kong-mesh/

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In this Kongcast episode, Matt Stratton, a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, explains the history of configuration automation, the world of cloud engineering and how it compares to DevOps.

Get started with Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/

Join the Pulumi community: https://www.pulumi.com/community/

How Pulumi and Kong work together: https://konghq.com/blog/kubernetes-ingress-pulumi/

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Still trying to add auth to each microservice's code? According to Jeff Taylor, Senior Product Manager at Okta, there’s an easier way! In this Kongcast, Jeff tells us how to speed up microservices security and take the burden off developers by managing auth with an API gateway.

Sign up for a free Okta account at https://developer.okta.com/

Sign up for a Kong Konnect free trial at https://konghq.com/kong-konnect/

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In this Kongcast episode, we go all-in on PHP, Laravel and PHP developer tools with Freek Van der Herten, a backend developer at Spatie.

Watch the video version to see Freek show how Ray works: https://youtu.be/Jv5lze9xpTc

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About Ray: https://spatie.be/products/ray

Try Ray: https://myray.app

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In this Kongcast episode, Grant McKeen and Jonathan White from IntegrationWorks, chat with us about how open banking and BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) work with Kong Gateway to create simplicity from complexity in the banking and financial services industry.

Try the Kobi CLI tool: https://github.com/IntegrationWorks/kobi

Learn more about BIAN at https://bian.org/

Try Kong Gateway for Free at https://konghq.com/install/

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In this Kongcast episode, Jason Yee, director of advocacy at Gremlin, explains the concept of chaos engineering, why even the best engineers can’t control everything and tools and tactics to help build app resiliency.

Learn more about Gremlin at gremlin.com/community or get certified at gremlin.com/certification

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In this Kongcast episode, Scott Lowe, principal field engineer at Kong, takes us back to basics by answering what a service mesh does and when to use a service mesh, among other common mesh-related questions.

Download Kuma to try it out: https://kuma.io/

Join the Kuma community (Slack): https://kuma.io/community/

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In this Kongcast Episode, Chinmay Gaikwad, tech evangelist at Epsagon, explains why metrics and logs aren’t sufficient for companies with a microservices architecture. Instead, Chinmay recommends leveraging distributed tracing for optimal observability.

Try Epsagon in a demo environment: https://demo.epsagon.com

Sign up for Epsagon: https://app.epsagon.com/signup

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Organizations don’t move as fast as technology. That’s why in this Kongcast episode, Aaron Weikle, Founder & CEO at MS3, explains how to continue supporting your organization’s legacy-based services as they continue to add the next generation of services.

More about MS3's Kong SOAP plugins: https://www.ms3-inc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Kong-SOAP-Adapter-WEB.pdf

More about the DataSonnet project: https://datasonnet.com/

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There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to developers. In this Kongcast episode, Ben Greenberg, Developer Advocate at Orbit, chats with us about building better engineering communities and focusing on the outcomes rather than technology. At the end, he shows us how he leveraged GitHub Actions to create a copy-and-paste workflow that integrates services, no matter the language they’re written in.

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Viktor Farcic, the Developer Advocate at Upbound, discusses why empowering developers to manage the full application lifecycle helps app development teams increase efficiency.

Learn more about Crossplane: https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane

Contact Viktor for more information: https://twitter.com/vfarcic

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In this Kongcast episode, Liz Fong-Jones, principal developer advocate at Honeycomb, introduces us to the concept of error budgets for service-level objectives (SLOs) and demonstrates how to accelerate software delivery with observability.

Learn more about service reliability and observability on Honeycomb's blog at hny.co/blog.

Check out the preview version of Liz's new book "Observability Engineering" https://www.oreilly.com/librar...

📣 It’s official 🦍

We’re launching a new series with Viktor Gamov and Kaitlyn Barnard called Kongcast!

We'll 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.

We go beyond the buzzwords and dissect real-life applications and success stories so that you can tackle your bi...