Kong x RBI Meetup (Custom Plugins Development)

We are thrilled to invite you to our first in-person meetup in Vienna in collaboration with Raiffeisen Bank International AG!

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 and service offerings.

When

September 26, 2023

Where

Muthgasse 24-26, 1190, Wien – ROOM EG 107

Agenda

17:00 - 18:00 Everyone gathers, snacks & drinks

18:00 - 18:30 Talk 1 Custom Plugin Development with Kong Gateway by Lokesh Chechani (Principal Field Engineer, Kong)

18:30 - 19:00 Talk 2 Kong Custom Plugins to Serve the Needs of RBI by Adam Zareba (Senior Software Engineer, RBI)

19:00 - 19:15 Break

19:15 - 19:45 Talk 3 Building a Multi-Cluster & Multi-Cloud Service Mesh with Kuma by Martin Fuchsluger (Technology Lead, REWE) & José Molero (Lead Cloud Architect, SQUER)

19:45 - 21:00 Networking, food & drinks

Talks

1) Custom Plugin Development with Kong Gateway

Kong plugins are the real muscle behind the Kong ecosystem, giving you the power to implement API gateway policies in a plug and play fashion. In this session, we will deep dive into the Kong plugin architecture, basics around plugin development, testing, and automated delivery. You will have the opportunity to learn about different plugin phases during an API request, unit testing, and installation of a plugin in Kong Gateway. We’ll show a live demo on how to develop a custom plugin in Lua and deploy it to Kong Gateway.

2) Kong Custom Plugins to Serve the Needs of RBI

After adoption of Kong in RBI group, our teams moved to the next level of maturity and implemented several custom plugins to ensure consistency of end to end API calls, pushing metrics to local systems, providing more details about errors, etc. We would like to share our experience and road blocks we faced during implementation and roll out.

3) Building a Multi-Cluster & Multi-Cloud Service Mesh with Kuma

In today's dynamic and distributed computing landscape, orchestrating and managing services across multiple clusters and clouds has become a complex challenge. This meetup session delves into the powerful solution of using Kuma to build a multi-cluster and multi-cloud service mesh. Kuma, an open-source service mesh built on top of Envoy, offers a unified and scalable approach to seamlessly connect, secure, and observe services across different environments.

This talk will explore the key benefits of adopting Kuma for multi-cluster and multi-cloud scenarios. We'll delve into its architecture, highlighting its ability to abstract away the underlying infrastructure complexity while providing advanced traffic management, security, and observability features. A Real-world use case will illustrate how REWE leverages Kuma to simplify cross-cluster communication, enhance application resilience, and enforce consistent security policies.

Speakers

Lokesh Chechani is a Principal Field Engineer at Kong. He is an API and cloud solutioning enthusiast, focused on enabling customers to adopt and transform the API ecosystem with a special interest in Financial Services customers.

Adam Zareba is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience. Adam is working in Realtime integration center of excellence on Group API Gateway layer with Kong: deployment & custom plugins implementation.

José Molero is a Lead Cloud Architect at SQUER focusing strongly on Kubernetes and cloud-native Systems. He loves sharing his knowledge as a thought leader internally at SQUER and outside with the community.

Martin Fuchsluger is Technology Lead in the Integration platform at REWE, aiming to enable teams to integrate their systems across the whole organisation easily, with the overarching goal to give REWE customers a full end-2-end digitalized experience.

See you there!

Kong Community Team