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- Enabling Git Sync which skips the cloud entirely and works with a 3rd party Git repository.
- Using Private Environments which are never synchronized in either Git or Insomnia Sync (cloud)
If you only have one collection, you can use Scratch Pad locally for that.
Reality is that Insomnia offers plenty of ways to still run locally, but now it does it in a sustainable way that allows us to improve the product even more.
I forgot to add that users can also create "Private Environments" which are always local and never synchronized with Insomnia Sync (in the cloud) or Git Sync.
An update on Insomnia 8.x here:
* Insomnia can be used locally-only with Scratch Pad.
* Insomnia can be used with an account without sharing any data using Git Sync (the data is in your Git repository, wherever that is hosted).
* Insomnia can be used with an account and without Git Sync in a fully end-to-end encrypted way (E2EE). Nobody can read your data.
* Insomnia stores your account information in Auth0, which is ISO27001, SOC 2 Type II, ISO27018, HIPAA BAA, Gold CSA STAR, PCI and GDPR compliant.
* The data is not automatically migrated anywhere unless an account is created, as clearly explained in the onboarding that users have to approve in order to get access to the product.
* Insomnia can be used for Free with an account.
Unlike Postman, we are fully E2EE on every plan, local Scratch Pad is still there, Git is always an option when having an account.
On top of this, we have shipped today 100s of features for real time collaboration, unlimited collaborators in the Free plan when working on one project, organizations, RBAC, EE SSO, multi-client support for everyone, and so on [1]
Finally, here is a video that shows how to use Insomnia locally: https://www.loom.com/share/de7af6f9e06b4452a799a033604f9270?...
Trying to put some clarity in the noise. If you find any of these statements which is factually incorrect, please point them out.
But if you only have one collection, Scratch Pad is still local only. So you can keep using Insomnia on Scratch Pad, still get product updates and it’s free.
But not making it easier to understand what was happening was an oversight, and we will make it more clear in v8.1 (as soon as this week). So 8.0 will be a 2-day release in this regard.
You can also download any previous version of Insomnia and export from there. Without an account, the data never leaves your computer either way.
I want to clarify a couple of things:
1) Insomnia can still be used locally in any version prior to this one. The data is there, and can be used.
2) Insomnia still has a local-only mode (Scratch Pad) that doesn't require any account, that anybody can use. A collection can be imported into Scratch Pad for API debugging purposes.
3) There is an onboarding step that clearly states what's going to happen and that allows the user to export the data. We also don't migrate any data until an account is created.
4) Data is not migrated in the cloud when collaborating with Git Sync, which is a capability that allows us to use Git as the source of truth. It is also not migrated without creating an account.
5) When migrating to the cloud, data is fully end-to-end encrypted (E2EE). That is the case for free accounts as well, not only premium plans.
6) Any organization that is serious about security can get in touch with Kong to pass the security compliance assessment and use the cloud like they most likely do with any other vendor.
7) We will even further improve clarity with a new minor version (8.1) that makes all of the above more clear (how to export/import etc).
What's not seen in that conversation, is the large number of users that wanted a product that allowed them to collaborate better, without losing their data, and sync that data securely across multiple clients. Which is why we tried to strike a balance between convenience and feature-richness (cloud) but still provide a local option for other users (Scratch Pad).
I can assure you that we didn't wake up one day and choose violence :) Ultimately, I am also perfectly aware that we can't make everybody happy.
Seriously, this problem doesn’t exist in other places. It has been solved 70 years ago in rest of the civilized world.
You just described modern US politics.
I don’t understand why we are stuck in this loophole of zones, affordable housing and so on. There is plenty of space!
The government could build those homes too if they really cared about it. Heck! Soviet Russia built a bunch of complexes for people to live in, sure they won’t be pretty, but better than sleeping outside. But somehow we can’t build them here in the US and we’d rather spend years and decades discussing existing zoning laws when new ones could be established pretty much all over the nation.
In the next 1-2 months you will see the biggest amount of improvements the Insomnia application has ever seen, since here at Kong we are pouring tons of resources into it.
I am suggesting that the Fed should have not be authoritative on these topics since obviously they have no clue. Only recently they tried to tone it down a little by asserting they are a "data-dependent" and even then, they are still authoritatively making assumptions every week on things they have no clue about.
Sure the banks should have managed risks better and this whole fiasco falls on SVB, but to be fair the Fed is doing a horrible job at setting expectations. Whoever trusted them in the past, got screwed. They are fundamentally a reactive organism that for some unknown reason talks as if they are the ones in charge.
Obviously they are not.
But the first time? Absolutely.
If the biggest complaint about Lua is 1-based tables, I’d say that’s a compliment to the language indeed.
It has been built by extending Nginx with an OpenResty-based DNS resolver instead. You could even extract it away from Kong itself and use it standalone.