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Introduction Konnect is Kong’s SaaS platform that enables users to manage every aspect of their APIs in a single place.

In my previous post, I explained how I manage my server declaratively.

After getting into the Nix ecosystem, my whole experience with managing things changed.

Intro In a very long time, managing servers is a manual task to me and I have to write a bunch of shell scripts or rely on cloud-init (when supported) to configure the server exactly as I wanted.

Intro As APIs become the backbone of modern applications—especially in the AI era, where ‘There is no AI without APIs,’ as stated by Augusto, Kong’s CEO—securing communication has never been more critical.

Security is essential, especially as automation and GitOps become the de facto standard for managing everything from infrastructure to application deployment.

In my previous post, I demonstrated how to persist private keys for the JWT Signer plugin when Kong is deployed in DB-less mode by manually writing the keys in Kong declarative config.

What is mTLS API security is more important than ever as organizations rely on them to power critical applications and services.

With the release of Apple silicon, the adoption of ARM-based CPUs is surging.

Introduction Understanding the internal state of your application through telemetry data, traces, metrics, and logs, is crucial.