The way we build APIs and connect our services is changing. The components of a single application can be written in different languages, have different architectures, run on different infrastructure, and still need to talk to each other. In this hybrid world, propagating state across different systems is one of the biggest challenges to overcome. Kong has become the most widely adopted open-source API Platform in the tech industry because of its ability to connect disparate APIs at scale. It is able to do this because it is itself a stateless application that leverages Apache Cassandra or Scylla to propagate routing configuration, security tokens and other state across multiple nodes in complex API and Microservices use-cases. In this talk learn how Kong uses Cassandra or Scylla to reach an eventually consistent state across all its nodes. In this session we will explore: - Major industry trends that are transforming how we build APIs and Microservices - Understanding what is Kong and why it's being adopted - How Kong leverages Cassandra/Scylla to propagate state across large distributed enterprise deployments