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Three Strategies to Deliver

Innovation in the Middle of
Transformation

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 Congratulations!
“Every Company is a Tech Company Now...”

Time Magazine, April 2021

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 Congratulations!
“Every Company is a Tech Company Now…
The Disruption is Just Beginning”

Expense Report Expense Report

Time Magazine, April 2021
10 years ago Today
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 New Era of Business
Digital Experiences that Shape Physical Outcomes

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 Speed vs Agility

Measures the ability to move in Measures the ability to make

one direction as quickly as quick changes of direction
possible. while moving at speed.

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 The Complication
“...most companies have enormous technical debt —
embedded legacy technologies that are difficult to change.”
Harvard Business Review
Digital Transformation Comes Down to Talent in 4 Key Areas

62% 51% 43%

of technology leaders fear believe their organization would of Companies on the S&P 500
they are at risk of being be out of business in fewer than fell off the list since 2010,
displaced by competitors who 3 years if they failed to keep pace replaced by technology-first
innovate more quickly with digital innovation companies

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Strategy for 1. Delivering Now
2. Pragmatic Modernization
Building Agility 3. Business Resilience

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Step 1: Delivering Now

Monolithic
Inventory
BUSINESS OUTCOMES Application

■ Modern Mobile App

■ E-commerce Website

Monolithic
Fulfillment
Application

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Step 2: Pragmatic Modernization

Monolithic
Inventory
Monolithic
BUSINESS OUTCOMES Application
Inventory
Application
■ Modern Mobile App
■ E-commerce Website
■ Create API Revenue
Monolithic
Fulfillment
Fulfillment
Application

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Step 3: Business Resilience

BUSINESS OUTCOMES Monolithic

Inventory
Inventory
Application
■ Modern Mobile App
■ E-commerce Website
■ Create API Revenue
■ Enter New Market Monolithic
Fulfillment
Fulfillment
Application

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Step 3: Business Resilience

BUSINESS OUTCOMES Monolithic

Inventory
Inventory
Application
■ Modern Mobile App
■ E-commerce Website
■ Create API Revenue
■ Enter New Market Monolithic
Fulfillment
Fulfillment
Application

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Strategy Gap

Deliver Now Connectivity

Provides
Pragmatic Modernization
■ Consumability
■ Reliability
■ Security
Business Resilience ■ Observability

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 Consumption and Assembly

Location of Commerce Location of Industry

■ Manages experience ■ Culmination of complex supply chains
■ Curates services ■ Houses raw materials
■ Delivers simple consumption ■ Instructions for assembly

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 Gateway and Service Mesh

GATEWAY

APP APP

Consumption: Packages experience for Assembly: Combines services to create a product

your business’s digital services ■ Connectivity
■ Onboarding/ Catalog ■ Observability
■ Consumer/Application management ■ Service Discovery
■ API as a product

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 Introducing Kong Konnect

Architectural Freedom Hybrid and Multi-Cloud

End-to-end Service Connectivity
Devs choose the best language, APIs consistently deployed across any
Services connect within apps,
protocol and cloud services infra, physically close to business
across apps, and at the edge

Kubernetes Native Fast, Scalable and Secure Extensible

Single operating environment for Lightweight runtimes with minimal Custom traffic and security plugins
containers, microservices and APIs footprint for distributed systems to complement out-of-box policies

Automation
Runtime configuration accessible via CLI, REST API
& YAML. Automate everything consistently in CI/CD

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 Implement Agility with
Kong Konnect

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 Konnect for Delivering Now

Monolithic
Inventory
GATEWAY Application

GATEWAY

GATEWAY

Monolithic
Fulfillment
Application

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 Konnect for Pragmatic Modernization
SERVICE MESH

Monolithic
Inventory
GATEWAY
Application

GATEWAY

GATEWAY

Monolithic
Fulfillment
Application

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 Konnect for Business Resilience

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 Agility to help Digital Experiences
Shape the Physical

3. Improve 1. Deliver Now

Business
Get to market fast by
Resilience
connecting new
Innovate at lower cost by services to legacy
re-composing services investments

2. Pragmatic Modernization

Break apart legacy investments on

your schedule

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 Kong: The Cloud Connectivity Company
300+ Enterprise Customers

2017 2020

The Most Adopted Connectivity Platform in the World Investors

Over Trillions of Transactions Per Day

220M 1.5M+ 26k

Downloads Active monthly Stars on Github
instances Index GGV a16z CRV Eric Schmidt Jeff Bezos

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 Supporting Articles
Kong 2021 Digital Innovation Benchmark Survey

Thank You
Gartner
Future of Applications: Delivering the Composable Enterprise

HBR

www.konghq.com Digital Transformation Comes Down to Talent in 4 Key Areas

Forrester
The Role Of Technical Debt In The New Normal

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