Josh, a developer who prefers coding over documentation and complex networking technologies, discovered the open-source API platform Kong, which facilitated the modernization of legacy applications through its developer-centric approach. Intrigued by its capabilities, he introduced Kong's enterprise SaaS platform, Konnect, to his team, leading to a collaborative effort to modernize a slow, cumbersome Pig Latin translator application originally written in Ansible and Python. By leveraging Apache Camel and Spring Boot, Josh transitioned the application to a synchronous architecture, significantly boosting performance and enabling deployment on Kubernetes using Terraform. Konnect's API versioning allowed backward compatibility, ensuring seamless modernization while supporting legacy clients. This success led to the decommissioning of the legacy architecture in favor of a microservices-based approach, highlighting the effectiveness of Kong Konnect in multi-cloud environments.