Kong / Kong Meetups

We are thrilled to welcome you to our first in-person meetup for 2023! Get ready for an evening filled with interesting talks, networking, food & drinks, and more! When we say more... well, you will have to come in-person to find out the surprises we have prepared for you

Agenda (and timecodes)

0:00 Everyone arrives, networking, drinks & snacks
4:26 Talk 1: Debug This: Enter Open Telemetry and Kong Gateway by @ViktorGamov
32:22 Talk 2: Kong Internals: Combating Latency with Yield() by Saju Pillai
1:01:39 Talk 3: Changing Engines in Flight Kong 3.x Series by Harry Bagdi
1:28:37 Q&A, networking, food & drinks

▬▬▬▬▬▬ KONG COMMUNITY ▬▬▬▬▬▬
⭐ https://github.com/Kong/kong
🐦 https://twitter.com/thekonginc
🌎 https://konghq.com/community/
🍻 https://www.meetup.com/pro/kong
❓ ️https://discuss.konghq.com/
💯 https://konghq.com/kong-champions/

Neste meetup os integrantes do time "BR HEXA" que foi vencedor no Hackaton Virtual 2022 da Kong, estarão apresentando:

porque um modelo de autenticação baseado apenas em login e senha pode não ser suficiente e por que soluções de autenticação de vários fatores (2FA ou MFA) são necessárias
uma introdução ao TOTP (time-based one time password)
uma apresentação do plugin Kong que desenvolvemos para proteção OTP e que foi o vencedor do Hackaton Virtual 2022 da Kong
algumas dicas sobre como se destacar ao participar de futuros hackatons da Kong (mas as dicas valem para outros hackatons também)

We are streaming live from KongHQ in San Francisco, CA, for a joint Meetup with the Kong/SF Meetup group & San Francisco Java User Group!

➡️ Tech Talk: Service Mesh for Java Developers
😎 Speaker: @ViktorGamov, Developer Advocate at Kong

Service Mesh is the future of application connectivity.
It delivers immediate value to any architecture by increasing our application traffic’s security, reliability, and observability.
It abstracts the underlying network details and provides discovery, routing, and a variety of other functionality.
But what is in it for Java/JVM developers? Don’t we already have all of this functionality in the frameworks?

In this service mesh presentation, Viktor will show you how easy it is to get started (in Kubernetes) - how to install a control plane, deploy a Java demo application (spring boot, micronaut), enable traffic policies, and touch on observability - all this without convoluting allocation with different frameworks or custom code.

Primeiro Meetup online de 2022 para comunidade Kong no Brasil, contará com a presença de profissionais de mercado compartilhando conteúdo introdutório sobre o API Gateway mais utilizado no mundo.

An unstoppable shift is underway. Just as the way we consume software has changed forever; the way we create, deploy and manage software is reconstituting away from centralised monolithic IT silos - to small, hyper-efficient, specialised delivery squads who don't just understand the business, they are the business.

This radical yet obvious decentralisation mirrors the breakdown of software from monolithic applications to discreet microservices, affording a level of speed and agility not witnessed before. It comes with it's challenges, however. Join Brad Drysdale, APAC Field CTO from Kong as we dissect this evolution and hear stories, challenges and opportunities from the front line of software delivery.

🚀 Tech Talk: Minimise friction in the API lifecycle to maximize fun (coding time!)

Following best practise when building APIs shouldn’t be so hard. It’s not fair to always be reading documentation (where it exists) and changing the way you work, or going through multiple rounds of manual approval before your work can go live. We’re now operating at a painful level of scale and complexity with microservices, service mesh, and hybrid deployment environments and the demands on us are greater than ever.

Being efficient and productive, and producing consistent, consumable APIs is not about reducing the complexity, it’s about embracing it through automation, declarative configuration, and APIOps.

😎 Speakers
🙋‍♀️ Melissa van der Hecht is Field CTO, EMEA at Kong, and her passion is inspiring business change through APIs. Melissa knows the API and microservices space well, having also spent five years at MuleSoft in the Office of the CTO and Solution Consulting teams, and has helped several multinational organisations create and implement their API strategy. She holds an M.Eng in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bristol University in the UK.

🙋‍♂️ Jeyaram Deivachandran is a Director and Engagement Lead at QuadCorps, a boutique Integration consultancy and valued Kong Partner. Having spent over 10+ years in the integration space at Tibco, MuleSoft and most recently as Head of APIs, Cloud Native and Microservices for Capgemini FS - Digital. Jey has helped organisations across multiple sectors strategise, architect, implement and execute complex integration programmes. He is passionate about enriching the community with the hard-won lesson's learnt and holds an MSc in IT for Business Management from Kingston Business School and BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering from Kinston University.

Join the Meetup group at: https://www.meetup.com/meshy-mesh/

Envoy is a key part of a number of service meshes currently on the market, including Istio and the Kuma CNCF Sandbox project. As such, it is often helpful to better understand how Envoy is configured to operate as a data plane in a service mesh. In this session, you’ll learn about the basics of Envoy configuration, like listeners, filters, clusters, and endpoints.

😎 Speaker: Scott Lowe
Scott Lowe is a well-known author, blogger, speaker, podcaster (host of the Full Stack Journey podcast), and a 25+ year veteran of the IT industry. Scott has held a variety of roles over the course of his career, ranging from entry-level desktop support to CTO for a start-up. He’s currently a principal field engineer at Kong, focused on helping customers solve challenges with cloud connectivity through service mesh and related technologies. He has authored a number of technical books over the course of his career, and shares technical content regularly on his blog at https://blog.scottlowe.org. You can follow Scott on Twitter at @scott_lowe.

Slide deck with links to additional resources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18hH9cI6J9b7jhzkMXJZkNTLA4dkDVNJp/view?usp=sharing

Architects are tasked with seeing that organizations meet their objectives with speed and quality, for a reasonable cost. This simple mission is anything but simple. Security, analytics, and everything in-between present themselves as forces to be acknowledged and considered. Building APIs and Microservices present new puzzles to be solved for architects. Or do they?

In this session, we attempt to detect patterns that present themselves in organizations, which have their root in human elements. Yet reliably manifest in technology.

Speaker: Ahmed Koshok, Solutions Engineer at Kong

#Cloudnative application design is the new default. Cloud-native applications are often organized as a collection of independent and loosely coupled services, allowing for more flexibility and agility with respect to changing business requirements. Application runtimes become hybrid at the same time, so we have to deal with distributed cloud and on-prem workloads. This makes the world even more complex from a connectivity perspective since services forming an application need to interact with each other and with already existing monolithic applications both on-prem and in the cloud.

As we can see, there’s a lot of network communication involved and it must occur in a secure, reliable, and comprehensible way. Since efficiency and agility are critical factors nowadays, we need new, modern approaches, which allow development teams to act autonomously while being able to focus on the important things at the same time.

A service mesh like #Kuma can help you to address these challenges in the area of security, connectivity, and observability transparently by moving the responsibility from the application to the infrastructure layer.

At the same time, a service mesh gives a self-service path to development teams for implementing respective requirements more efficiently. This means an extension to traditional connectivity handling approaches, where traffic is restricted by firewall rules and explicit knowledge from a network team is needed. This allows us to implement business requirements more efficiently and more flexibly with respect to connectivity and reliability.

This session gives an introduction to Kuma, how it is different from other service mesh implementations, and shows how easy it is to get started with it.

😎 Speaker: Sven Bernhardt, OPITZ CONSULTING

Sven works as a Chief Architect in the business development and innovation team at OPITZ CONSULTING. He is a Cloud-Native enthusiast, API, and integration geek. In his position, Sven is always curious how new technologies and concepts can help to make IT more valuable and efficient to businesses.

#Meetup #Kong #OptizConsulting

Kong Italy Meetup with SIGHUP.io featuring Credemtel

Aprirà l'evento un talk dedicato alla nascita ed al percorso di crescita di Kong.

Proseguiremo con un deep dive sulle strategie di CI/CD a disposizione dei Team sfruttando i tools ufficiali decK e Portal.

Infine ripercorreremo il percorso di adozione dei prodotti Kong effettuato da Credemtel, partendo dagli aspetti che hanno guidato la software selection fino ad arrivare al progetto sviluppato ed ai risultati ottenuti.

😎 Speakers
Marco Palladino | Founder & CTO @Kong
Marco Palladino è Co-founder e CTO @ Kong. Oltre ad ricoprire il ruolo di core maintainer, è attualmente responsabile di design e delivery dei prodotti Kong, svolgendo un ruolo di leadership tecnica su API e microservizi. È stato anche il Co-founder di Mashape, progetto iniziato nel 2010 e venduto nel 2017 come il più grande API marketplace del mondo.

Samuele Chiocca | Kubernetes Engineer @SIGHUP
Samuele è Kubernetes solution engineer @SIGHUP e fa parte del team di delivery, lavorando su tutto ciò che riguarda Kubernetes + Kong. Effettua attività di formazione e supporto alle aziende guidandole durante il loro Cloud Native Journey.

Giacomo Borri | Head of Architecture @Credemtel
Laureato in Ingegneria Informatica nel 2003, entra nel mondo della consulenza (Imola Informatica) in ambito IT nel settore Banking. Nel 2006 entra in BST S.p.A. (società acquista nel 2011 da Capgemini) dove si occupata di prodotti in ambito core banking (condizioni, catalogo prodotti, pricing dinamico, trasparenza, ecc.) su varie realtà bancarie italiane. Entra a far parte del Gruppo Credem nel 2017 all'interno dell'ufficio Architetture di Gruppo come architetto di riferimento per i sistemi di pagamento. Ad aprile 2020 gli viene assegnato il ruolo di Responsabile dell'Ufficio Architetture di Credemtel (Gruppo Credem).

Antonello Della Rocca | System Architect Ufficio Architetture @Credemtel
Scrive il primo "bug enterprice" nel 2007 e dopo 7 anni di gavetta e certificazioni Microsoft, nel 2014 entra a far parte della grande famiglia del Gruppo Credem come senior dev in Credemtel. Un paio di anni più tardi inizia a disegnare architetture cloud, ad appassionarsi di SRE ed a coccolare cluster RabbitMQ.

We live in a connected world, and our digital experiences are formed by thousands of services acting as building blocks. As the world becomes more decentralized and services take over, cloud connectivity becomes the key differentiating factor of digital experiences for any organization.

Join Kong Field CTO Brad Drysdale 😎 as he discusses how you can achieve end-to-end cloud connectivity for your organization with Kong Konnect. Konnect lets you achieve a cloud native service lifecycle at scale, ensuring consistent security, governance, and discoverability of every service through automation.

In this meetup, we’ll walk you through the benefits of adopting a unified cloud connectivity fabric for your organization.

You’ll get an overview of:
- Konnect’s benefits, architecture, and deployment options
- Creation, testing, and publishing of services to the Developer Portal
- Managing across platforms with Runtime Manager
- Publishing and discovering services with ServiceHub
- Monitoring and operating using Vitals

+ Brad will jump into Konnect with a live demo 👨‍💻

We live in a connected world, and our digital experiences are formed by thousands of services acting as building blocks. As the world becomes more decentralized and services take over, cloud connectivity becomes the key differentiating factor of digital experiences for any organization.

Join Kong Field CTO Melissa van der Hecht 😎 as she discusses how you can achieve end-to-end cloud connectivity for your organization with Kong Konnect. Konnect lets you achieve a cloud native service lifecycle at scale, ensuring consistent security, governance and discoverability of every service through automation.

In this meetup, we’ll walk you through the benefits of adopting a unified cloud connectivity fabric for your organization. You’ll get an overview of:
- Konnect’s benefits, architecture and deployment options
- Creation, testing and publishing of services to the Developer Portal
- Managing across platforms with Runtime Manager
- Publishing and discovering services with ServiceHub
- Monitoring and operating using Vitals

Then, we will jump into Konnect with a live demo from Kong Solutions Engineer, Ross McDonald 👨‍💻