A decade ago, we set out to connect the world through APIs, which we saw as fundamental building blocks of software. Before Kong, we founded Mashape as the first API marketplace to provide an assembly line for developers building apps, and then we open-sourced its core API runtime, Kong, the…
Gartner's strategic planning assumption: by 2029, 50% of software application providers will be forced to share their context layer externally for third-party orchestrators to stay relevant. Today, that number is less than 2%. This isn't a gradual evolution. It's a structural shift in where value…
The APIs that have been powering websites and apps created a massive market, but there are only up to 8 billion humans consuming them behind pixels. As LLMs are taking over the world — in the form of productized agents first — there will be 100X more machines than humans. The internet built for…
We have crossed a threshold in the AI economy where the competitive advantage is no longer about access to data — it’s about access to context. The "context economy" has arrived, defined by a fundamental shift from selling data products to selling context products as a service. This is the shift…
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The Stakes Keep Rising The security implications are severe. OWASP's 2025 Top 10 for LLM Applications ranks prompt injection as the number one critical vulnerability. Attackers manipulate LLM inputs to override instructions, extract sensitive data, or trigger unintended behaviors. Traditional…
Traditional APIs are, in a word, predictable. You know what you're getting: AI APIs, especially anything that runs on LLMs under the hood, are a completely different story. These things are highly unpredictable by their very nature. You're dealing with token-based costs that swing wildly depending…
Running Kong in front of your Solace Broker adds real benefits: Imagine an order service that accepts REST requests and publishes them as events. 1. API Consumer calls Kong with a standard POST request: 2. Kong Gateway applies authentication, validates the payload, adds a correlation ID, rate…
The Anatomy of Architectural Complexity Modern architectures now juggle three distinct traffic patterns. Each brings unique demands. Traditional approaches treat them separately. This separation creates unnecessary complexity. North-South API Traffic External APIs are your digital front door.…
Executive Summary AI adoption has moved past the "honeymoon phase" and into the "operational chaos" phase. As enterprises juggle multiple LLM providers, skyrocketing token costs, and "Shadow AI" usage, the need for a centralized control plane has become critical. This guide explores how the AI…
Managed Redis cache is a turnkey "Shared State" add-on for Kong Dedicated Cloud Gateways. It is designed to combine the performance of an in-memory data store with the simplicity of a SaaS product. When you spin up a Dedicated Cloud Gateway in Kong Konnect, you can now toggle on Managed Redis with…
The Shifting Economic Landscape: The AI token economy in 2026 is evolving, and enterprise leaders must distinguish between low-cost input tokens and high-premium output tokens to maintain profitability. Agentic AI Financial Risks: The transition to agentic AI and multi-step reasoning models creates…