December Kong Bengaluru Meetup

We are thrilled to invite you to our Kong in-person Meetup in collaboration with Verifone! This is our last event for 2023, make sure to secure your spot!

Kong makes connecting APIs and microservices across today’s hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster than ever.

We power trillions of API transactions for leading organizations globally through our end-to-end API platform.

When
December 16, 10:00AM - 2:00PM

Where
2nd floor, West Tower, Gold Hill Supreme Software Park, Plot # 21,22,27 & 28, Sy no. 40,41 & 42 Electronic City Phase -2, Konappa Agrahara Village, Begur Hobli, Bengaluru

Agenda
10:00am - 10:30am Welcome, networking & coffee
10:30am - 11:15am [Talk 1] Kong Gateway Custom Plugin Development by Prema Namasivayam (Technical Manager, Verifone) and Satyajit Sial (Senior Software Development Engineer, Verifone)
11:15am - 12:00am [Talk 2] Observing Kong plugins in Kong Gateway 3.x by Avinash Upadhyaya K R (Platformatory)
12:00pm - 2:00pm Networking & lunch

Talks
1) Kong Gateway Custom Plugin Development
As we all know Kong Gateway is a widely used API Gateway which has enormous plugin support for various functionality. Still, there may be a requirement specific to a customer or business case which existing Kong Plugin may not support. In this talk we will be providing some tips of custom plugin development in Kong Gateway and also show some plugins developed by us and how it is helping us in our business usecase. By attending this talk, you will be able to write your own Custom plugin in Kong Gateway.

2) Observing Kong plugins in Kong Gateway 3.x
Kong 3.x introduces OpenTelemetry support for deeper insights of the performance of the API Gateway at various levels. In this talk, we will explore the OpenTelemetry integration with Kong and particularly telemetry of Kong plugins. We will explore various scenarios with performance impacted Kong plugins and go over troubleshooting troublesome Kong plugins with OpenTelemetry. By attending this talk, participants will gain valuable insights into troubleshooting Kong plugins effectively, equipping them with the knowledge and tools necessary to overcome challenges and optimize the performance of their Kong plugin in the 3.x series.

Speakers
Prema Namasivayam and Satyajit Sial (Verifone)
Avinash Upadhyaya K R (Platformatory)

Together with Verifone, we are excited to welcome you for our last Meetup for 2023! See you all there.

Kong Community Team