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Home » Features » Kong Enterprise 2.7 Simplifies API Management

Kong Enterprise 2.7 Simplifies API Management

Avatar photoBy: Mike Vizard on February 10, 2022 Leave a Comment

Kong Inc. this week advanced its service connectivity platform strategy with an update to Kong Enterprise that makes it simpler to collectively manage groups of application programming interfaces (APIs).

Michael Heap, director of developer experience for Kong, Inc., said that capability will make it simpler to, for example, assign rate limits to different tiers of APIs.

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In addition, Kong Enterprise version 2.7 adds support for real-time and event-based use cases involving the open source Kafka streaming platform and webhooks. Usage of event-driven architectures is rising as more organizations embrace digital business transformation initiatives that require near-real-time processing versus relying on traditional batch-oriented applications, noted Heap.

Finally, IT teams can now also securely store secrets such as user names/passwords, API tokens, database credentials and private keys that might be used to access Kong Gateway. An improved user interface for Kong Manager UI makes it simpler to configure the Kong OpenID Connect (OIDC) Plugin for the Kong Gateway.

Overall, Heap said, the latest update also provides 25% increased throughput and improved latency. In tests run by GigaOM, a third-party research firm, Kong Enterprise 2.7 achieved 52,250 transactions per second (TPS) maximum throughput with a 100% success rate.

Kong is making a case for a service connectivity platform that enables an IT team to manage APIs at a higher level of abstraction by integrating all Layer 4 through Layer 7 services for both monolithic and microservices-based applications. Rather than having to manage an array of networking services and associated services in isolated silos, that layer of abstraction makes it simpler to manage distributed applications that have dependencies on a wide range of APIs.

In general, the number of APIs that organizations are using both internally and externally has expanded tremendously over the last several years. The challenge now is finding a way to not only manage and secure all those APIs but also retire them as new services come online. Many APIs are created and simply forgotten about because their developer neglected to inform IT operations of their existence. Those so-called “zombie APIs” then become a cybersecurity liability when cybercriminals discover they can surreptitiously exfiltrate data via those APIs.

APIs are, of course, an integral element of any software supply chain. But as high-profile security breaches put software supply chain security in the spotlight, it’s only a matter of time before IT teams look for more efficient ways to manage and secure APIs at scale.

Inevitably, that also means organizations will need to decide how much they want to rely on proxy software, API gateways and service meshes to achieve that goal within the context of a larger service connectivity platform.

In the meantime, the days when APIs were managed in isolation from the rest of the IT organization are coming to an end. The only thing left to determine is how involved API developers need to be in their ongoing life cycle management.

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