Agents are moving from demos into production, and the platform teams running them keep hitting the same four problems: spend nobody can attribute, credentials that security cannot manage, enterprise APIs rewrapped as agent tools team by team, and no single view of what an agent actually did. Today…
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Today ServiceNow launched the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance , and Kong is proud to be a founding member to help enterprises put AI to work safely, at scale. It's a milestone for Kong, and we think it's an important moment for the industry. Here's what the alliance is, why it matters, and why we…
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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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In July, we announced Kong AI Gateway 2.0 in private beta and made a promise: freed from the API gateway release train, AI Gateway would ship at the speed of the AI ecosystem itself. We said you'd see the evidence quickly. Here it is. Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is now generally available , and…
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TL;DR: This Kong employee profile highlights Noah Koeck's progression at Kong from London-based SDR to Commercial Account Executive in the DACH region, demonstrating how ambition, teamwork, and proactive learning drive career success in the AI connectivity era. From growing up in the Austrian Alps…
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At Kong, we fully agree with Gartner’s recent reporting on the emerging marketing of AI FInOps tools. AI FinOps must not be an afterthought but should be a critical and mandatory component for any enterprise AI program. The explosive growth of AI workloads from simple AI-assisted coding to product…
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When an application calls a model provider directly, the service needs the provider's API key, and any control over that traffic has to be built into the service itself. For one service calling one model, that is the right amount of machinery. It holds up less well as the application grows. Every…
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Let’s say someone logs in with a real account and a valid token, and your system treats them like any other customer. Then they start changing the invoice number in their requests and reading invoices that belong to other people. That’s a classic case of security breach, but nothing in that story…
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KSAI stands for Kong Skills for Agentic Intelligence. It brings AI-assisted code review and implementation into GitHub, where our engineering work is actually done. The AI agents run in CI, so closing a laptop doesn't stop the work. By leveraging KSAI, we establish agentic engineering best…
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AI coding tool spend is projected to top $13 billion in 2026, compounding at more than 60% a year. That's an entire category showing up at once, according to the recent Palo Alto Networks' Secure AI Coding report. These agents don't just autocomplete a line of code anymore. They plan. They act.…
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Every request returned 200 OK, the task still failed. This is the problem in one sentence. A single user intent now fans out into multiple model calls, tool invocations, MCP (Model Context Protocol) interactions, policy executions, retries, and agent handoffs. Each call can look healthy on its own…
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TL;DR? You’ve been asked to make a slate of popular services like GitHub, Figma, or Salesforce available as MCP servers to agents inside your organization. Your employees expect to access these through their existing single-sign-on provided by your corporate identity provider. Your security team…
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As enterprises put more AI applications and agents into production, managing the associated costs is becoming an increasingly important operational challenge. AI spending is distributed across multiple providers, models, applications, and teams, making it difficult to understand where costs…
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AI agents are becoming increasingly capable, but their usefulness depends on what they can access. An agent that can reason through a customer support issue is of limited value if it can’t retrieve customer information, check an order status, or initiate a refund. Similarly, an IT operations agent…
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