A decade ago, cloud and API sprawl got ahead of governance, and enterprises spent years trying to account for costs they'd never tracked. Today, we're seeing the same pattern around AI, with hundreds of customers proxying traffic via Kong AI Gateway, which includes LLM, MCP, and agent connectivity.…
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Kong was born to connect. The world is shifting from connecting cloud services with apps to connecting LLMs through agents. API calls and tokens are moving in tandem; a new unit of intelligence is forming. As AI traffic explodes into hypervolumes, speed is all that matters. The same principles of…
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Gartner published a report last week (1) that I think marks a genuine inflection point for how enterprise technology leaders should think about AI strategy. The headline finding: we have crossed a threshold where competitive advantage in the AI era is no longer about access to data — it's about…
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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…
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This September, Hollywood’s spotlight shines on Kong as we welcome our global partner ecosystem back for another action-packed Kong Partner Summit 2026 preceding API + AI Summit! Together, we'll explore how organizations are moving beyond AI experimentation to production-ready, enterprise-scale…
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One of the most rewarding parts of my role is hearing from employees that Kong is a place where they can do meaningful work, grow their careers, and genuinely enjoy the people they work with. That's why I'm thrilled to share that Kong has been named to the Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay…
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Go beyond AI theory and hype, and dig into what's actually running now at Kong's API + AI Summit 2026 , the must-attend AI and API conference of 2026, Sept. 30–Oct. 1 at the InterContinental Los Angeles. Register now , and join the people who've made the calls, hit the walls, and figured out…
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Our annual Kong Innovator Awards celebrate the people actually doing the work: the builders, engineers, and teams using Kong to solve hard problems in ways we didn't expect. Let’s be clear – these aren't participation trophies. They recognize the customers who pushed further, shipped something…
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You've diagnosed the problem. Your agentic AI initiatives are stalling — not because the models are wrong, but because the integration layer underneath them wasn't built for this. Batch data, rigid schemas, fragmented governance, no real-time event delivery. The plumbing is the bottleneck . Now the…
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If you've been around long enough to remember when iPaaS was the answer to everything, you know the pattern. New paradigms arrive. Someone realizes that wiring it into existing infrastructure is harder than the demos suggested. An integration layer gets built. That layer slowly becomes…
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You would never expose a REST API without an API gateway in front of it. Authentication, rate limiting, observability, access control — these aren't optional extras. They're mandatory, and we've spent the last decade building the API gateway pattern to solve exactly this problem. So here's the…
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The new Konnect Dev Portal Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code gives you a live, portal-accurate preview of your content right beside the file you are editing. You watch a page take shape exactly as it will appear to your developers, as you type, without ever leaving your local editor. Konnect…
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As APIs grow across teams, keeping them consistent becomes difficult. Some APIs follow naming conventions and include clear descriptions, while others don’t. Over time, these differences make APIs harder to understand, review, and maintain. That is where API linting helps. Kong Insomnia has already…
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You swapped in a better model. You fine-tuned it. You threw more tokens at the problem. And still — your agents hallucinate, break under load, and deliver answers that were accurate about three hours ago. The model isn't the problem. Gartner recently flagged that up to 40% of enterprise agentic AI…
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Production AI no longer generates one kind of traffic. It generates four patterns, and most teams govern only one. AI traffic management starts with a single decision: proxy AI traffic through one control point instead of letting it flow straight from application code to model providers. Skip that…
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We have big news for platform and AI infra teams: Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is available today in private beta . It runs on its own dedicated runtime, ships on its own release cadence, and carries a completely reimagined user experience designed around the way teams actually build with AI: models, MCP…
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Gartner recently published its inaugural Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms (AIGP) — a signal that the AI governance category has graduated from analyst speculation to something enterprises are actively buying. Thirteen vendors were formally evaluated. The market is projected to grow from…
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