Kong / Kong Summit 2019 Sessions

Microservices and APIs are key enablers in National Bank of Australia’s (NAB) Technology strategy. In this Kong Summit 2019 session, NAB Product Manager of API Platforms, Dennis Advani talks about how NAB’s API Platform Team enabled service teams to publish their own discoverable, reusable APIs quickly and autonomously by decentralizing API development capabilities and implementing their own API Management SaaS. Adoption over the last year has been phenomenal with more than 65 service teams onboarded and more than 100 API’s published to production.

Optum Technology runs the technology for UnitedHealth Group. Kong drives the API ecosystem at Optum. This Kong Summit 2019 session details the journey of how Kong started at Optum and became the de facto solution. Optum engineers (and Kong Champions) Jeremy Justus and Ross Sbriscia discuss the steps it takes to be successful with open source in an enterprise, as well as the benefits a Fortune 6 can expect in embracing a community solution.

Tracing has been around for a while and has proven its value to debug issues like performance and common day-to-day scenarios. Users commonly query for particular traces and analyze a waterfall view of a single trace. Similar to logs, the value is not from a single event but by the aggregation of multiple events, and the breakdown of these aggregates over different dimensions or tags. In the case of traces, it is possible to construct rich topologies and navigate the aggregate data from these topologies. In this Kong Summti 2019 talk, Omnition Software Engineer, Constance Caramanolis introduces a different approach to consuming distributed trace data and the full value that can be realized.

Decoupling a legacy application into a microservices architecture is always a challenge. Decoupling an application that has 70 million users and 500,000 requests per minute without impacting uptime is an even bigger challenge. In this talk Kong Summit 2019, OLX Lead Software Engineer, Rodrigo Orofino shares how OLX has reshaped its authentication mechanism, making its platform more elastic and resilient.

The Kong community is very familiar with using Kong as an ingress gateway, but what about as an egress gateway? Checkr, a Kong open source user, managed to migrate 90 percent of its egress traffic using Kong. In this Kong Summit 2019 session, Checkr Software Engineer Zhuojie Zhou will cover the benefits of building out an egress gateway pattern, how Kong supports egress, and how he and his team built a solution of efficient HTTP auditing through the egress gateway.

As Telkom Indonesia transforms into a digital telecom company, new strategies have been implemented to create a digital touchpoint to allow Telkom's divisions, subsidiaries, and partners to easily expose and consume their APIs. This initiative required building a standalone billing service. In this Kong Summit 2019 session, Telkom Indonesia Software Engineer, I Putu Ariyasa, talks about the integration between Kong and the billing service by leveraging the Kong Plugins to solve rating limitations and achieve greater capabilities in their platform to support monetization.

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GraphQL is a popular alternative to REST for front-end applications as it offers flexibility and developer-friendly tooling. In this Kong Summit 2019 talk, Rakuten Software Engineer, Julien Bataille will look into the differences between REST and GraphQL, how GraphQL API Management presents a new set of challenges, and finally, how we can address those challenges by leveraging Kong extensibility.

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Most large enterprises have a lot of legacy developed over the years, but they need to embrace microservices quickly to beat the competition. The right approach for these large enterprise is not a big-bang strategy but rather an incremental strategy. In this Kong Summit 2019 session, Infosys AVP and Head of Architecture, Rajib Deb will explain how leveraging an API gateway and “servicifying” the legacy can help expedite the process for organizations adopting microservices architectural patterns.

When a cluster crashes and is not able to function normally, how do you failover requests from the failed cluster to another healthy Kong cluster to reduce downtime as much as possible and ensure an optimal user experience? In this Kong Summit 2019 session, Yahoo! Japan Site Reliability Engineer, Jun Cui explains how organizations can deploy a huge Kong cluster and operate them for high availability using Yahoo! Japan as a case example.

Building any good structure requires starting at the foundation, and architecting for engineering success is no different. Cargill’s Sr. Architecting Engineer, Jason Walker and Lead API Engineer, Colin Schaub discuss how to build a model for engineering success from the ground up. This Kong Summti 2019 session covers the goals for building a strong engineering culture, incorporating lean concepts into engineering processes, establishing core principles that empower decision making, generating self-service oriented delivery patterns, and more.

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In the first wave of DevOps, practitioners embraced change to incorporate development into design and build processes. To successfully build the next generation of software, practitioners will need to catch the second wave of DevOps to focus on controlling and fine-tuning evolving architectures. Honeycomb CEO, Charity Majors, discusses how to ensure buildability, empower developers, and make a truly observable architecture that’s primed for success.

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Video rental became online streaming, taxi cabs became rideshare, get sick…it’s back to the stone age. In this Kong Summit 2019 talk, the Director of Software Engineering at GlaxoSmithKline, Odean Maye analyzes in detail how APIs, microservices and the API economy are being used to accelerate drug research and development and to transform patient experiences.

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