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A Complete Guide To Api Functional Testing

Imagine deploying a sparkling new feature in your app that performs flawlessly in testing, but when it goes live, it all comes crashing down. Orders won’t process, data won’t sync, and ultimately, the users encounter dead ends. What is wrong? Most typically, the problem is with the APIs not doing what they are supposed to. This is exactly what API functional testing guards against.

Custom Dashboards in Kong Konnect | Part 2

Unlock the power of your API data with Kong Konnect's Custom Dashboard templates. In this video, we tackle the common challenge of not knowing which metrics are truly important for monitoring API service health and performance. Learn how Kong's decades of expertise are now baked directly into Konnect to provide you with best-practice dashboard templates. Dashboards from templates Say goodbye to starting from scratch! We'll walk you through the powerful new templates available in Kong Konnect that allow you to go from zero to a fully functional, insightful dashboard with a single click.

Stop Guessing with OAuth: Understanding CI/CD

OAuth 2.0 is the leading open authorization framework that enables secure delegated access to protected resources. From traditional web apps and browser-based apps to native apps and desktop applications, OAuth allows client apps to grant access on a user’s behalf without exposing login credentials, enabling powerful third-party applications, custom data flows, and powerful user experiences. However, while OAuth is secure, it’s not always fast.

Ensuring Data Consistency in Sharded APIs with High Latency

When dealing with sharded APIs, scaling is easier, but maintaining data consistency becomes a challenge, especially in high-latency environments. Here's the core problem: as data gets spread across multiple shards (or databases), operations like updates, reads, and transactions can lag or fail, leading to stale data, conflicts, or inconsistent states. This is especially problematic for critical applications like financial systems or e-commerce platforms.

Quality Assurance Vs Quality Control In Software Engineering

In software product development, many teams tend to ignore quality metrics and focus more on quantity. Such teams face challenges when building for production. They end up pushing to production very low-quality software that is filled with bugs. These bugs alone irritate and drive away product users. In 2022, research done by the Consortium for Information and Software Quality (CISQ) revealed that the cost of poor software quality in the US has grown to at least $2.41 trillion.

Data Sovereignty Is Everyone's Problem

Data sovereignty isn’t just a niche consideration anymore – it’s a central requirement in everything from cloud computing and analytics to software development. The environment of 2025 is significantly different from that of 2015, and even more so from 2005. What was once a patchwork of guidance documents, data privacy laws, and local regulations has given way to massive EU-wide regulations, multinational frameworks, and a greater focus by users on digital identity.