Christmas came a few days early from the Kong family. The first release candidate of the Kong 2.0 release was pushed out yesterday. The biggest highlight of this release is the shiny new “hybrid mode” deployment, which provides a more formal separation of control plane (e.g., management of the Kong cluster) behavior from data plane (e.g., proxying user-facing traffic). I had some time to play with this and wanted to share a few extra thoughts beyond what’s in the release notes.