Kong Bengaluru x Bangalore SRE July month meetup

We are thrilled to invite you to our in person meetup in Bangalore!

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 organisations globally through our end-to-end API platform.

For this meetup with be partnering with Bangalore SRE Groups this session, We’ll go over the basics of designing and testing APIs using Insomnia by Kong.

Let’s come together to share knowledge, forge connections, and toast to a more reliable future!

When: July 12th, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Smarsh Inc. (Halasuru, Bangalore)

AGENDA:
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM - Introductions and Kick -off
11:30 - 12 PM - From Chaos to Kong: building enterprise grade MT API governance at scale
In this talk we go over - K8s multi-tenancy 101s and challanges we have faced at Smarsh. How Kong as an API gateway platform solution helped us. Architectural deep dive, implementation journey and path ahead.
Speaker: Harsh Kumar and Duvvuri Srinivas (Smarsh)

12:05 - 12:35 PM - Introduction to Insomnia – Simplifying API Testing and CI/CD Integration

• Create a simple API, and an OpenAPI spec for it.
• Generate collection from OpenAPI spec for testing, use it on local
• Automating API tests using Insomnia CLI (`inso`)
• Running tests in CI tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)

Speaker: Harsha Dixit (Kong)

12:45 - 1:15 PM - Optimizing SRE workflows with MCP Servers
In this talk we'll explore how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes & simplifies access to diverse data sources for SRE teams, enabling automated context retrieval and more reliable, AI-driven operational workflows.
Speaker: Jeydev N. (JP Morgan Chase)

1:15 onwards - Networking over Coffee/Refreshments

This event is in collaboration with: Bangalore SRE Group
Venue and refreshments sponsor for the meetup: Smarsh Inc.