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As organizations continue to adopt AI-driven applications, managing usage and costs becomes more critical. Large language models (LLMs), such as those provided by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Mistral, can incur significant expenses when overused. This blog will explore how you can streamline your…
Kong has supported Redis since its early versions. In fact, the integration between Kong Gateway and Redis is a powerful combination to enhance API management. We can summarize the integration points and use cases of Kong and Redis into three main groups: For all use cases, Kong supports multiple…
Open source software has become an indispensable component of modern software development. With its easy accessibility, it offers numerous benefits such as cost savings, flexibility, and collaborative innovation. Since the use of open source components has become so mainstream, it poses some unique…
In the SaaS world, providers must offer tenant isolations for their customers and their data. This is a key requirement when offering services at scale. At Kong, we've invested a lot of time to provide a scalable and seamless approach for developers to avoid introducing breaches in our systems. In…
Too many organizations manually manage their API gateways and policy enforcement today. As humans, we make mistakes. You’ve got one team manually configuring Kong or another gateway on AWS, another fiddling with policies in Azure, and someone else applying governance rules by hand in GCP. That’s a…
Observability has become critical to ensuring the effective monitoring of application and system performance and health. It focuses on understanding a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it produces in the context of real-time events and actions across the infrastructure. Unlike…
Software development has always evolved with new paradigms to meet the growing demands of modern systems. One of the most significant shifts has been the adoption of microservices. Emerging in the early 2010s, this architectural pattern moved away from monolithic applications in favor of smaller,…
Understanding and monitoring the performance and health of applications and systems is critical. This is where observability comes into play. Observability is about gaining a comprehensive understanding of a system's internal state by analyzing the data it generates within the context of real-time…
Earlier this year the Kong Konnect Analytics team was looking to leverage the stability and flexibility of our own Kong Gateway to handle the entire load of our Analytics ingest firehose. Almost all Konnect API traffic flows through a Kong Gateway and most of it has from the very beginning. For…
This blog addresses the common challenges organizations face with fragmented API management in Kubernetes environments and presents Kong Konnect combined with the Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) as a comprehensive solution. We'll highlight the issues that arise when teams independently choose…
Many organizations struggle with managing API gateways across multiple cloud environments. In this blog post, we'll explore how Kong Mesh can solve these challenges and enable seamless cross-cloud connectivity. Many large companies operate API gateways in multiple regions or cloud service…
The focus of this blog is to provide step-by-step instructions for deploying and configuring Kong Mesh with Kong Konnect on an AWS ECS instance so that anyone will be able to get pre-production installation of Kong Mesh standing up on their own. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform…
Cloud native application development relies heavily on APIs. APIs have proven themselves as a scalable and efficient way to capture, deploy, and scale functionality. Consequently, APIs became a target for malicious actors to misuse. Therefore, building quality APIs with adequate security controls…
In this blog post, we will explore how organizations can leverage Kong and OpenTelemetry to establish and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and manage error budgets more effectively. By tracking performance metrics and error rates against predefined thresholds, teams can prioritize their work…
Ensuring secure access to applications and APIs is critical. As organizations increasingly adopt microservices architectures and cloud native solutions, the need for robust, fine-grained access control mechanisms becomes paramount. This is where the combination of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Kong…
Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.