From Pixels to APIs: The Programmable Economy is the Agentic Economy
API Composition and Packaging: Making Sense of APIs in the Enterprise Environment
In large organizations, platform architecture tends to be more historical artifact than intentional design. At the foundation of the stack sit monoliths that predate modern API standards; many of them are too risky or too costly to decommission fully. Built on top of them are services that were…
AI Observability: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Your LLM Infrastructure
Your dashboards scream 99.9% uptime. Latency stays well under 200ms. Error rates dwell at zero. These operational metrics look perfectly all right. Yet customer complaints continue to hit all-time highs. Your AI assistant prescribes incorrect medical dosages. Your cloud bill tripled overnight.…
In the Context Economy, Context is King
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…
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View AllSecure AI at Scale: Prisma AIRS and Kong AI Gateway Now Integrated
In today's digital landscape, APIs are the backbone of modern applications, and AI is the engine of innovation. As organizations increasingly rely on microservices and AI-powered features, the API gateway has become the critical control point for managing traffic. But as LLM/GenAI and MCP requests…
Modernizing Integration & API Management with Kong and PolyAPI
The goal of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) is to simplify how companies connect their applications and data. The promise for the first wave of iPaaS platforms like Mulesoft and Boomi was straightforward: a central platform where APIs, systems, and workflows could be managed together…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security: How to Restrict Tool Access Using AI Gateways
MCP servers expose all tools by default. There are two problems with this: security (agents get capabilities they shouldn't have) and performance (too many tools degrade LLM tool selection). The solution? Put a gateway between agents and MCP servers that filters tools based on who's asking. Default…
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View AllThe Platform Enterprises Need to Compete? Kong Already Built It
Gartner's strategic planning assumption stops you in your tracks: by 2029, 50% of software application providers will be forced to share their context layer externally for third-party orchestrators to stay relevant, versus less than 2% today. Let that number sink in. Nearly every enterprise…
Exposing Kafka to the Internet: Solving External Access
When teams resort to VPC peering or PrivateLink to expose Kafka, they're not solving the problem — they're managing it, one network topology decision at a time. Every new external consumer adds complexity: a new peering connection, new firewall rules, new IP space to coordinate, new potential for…
Announcing Solace as Kong’s Newest Premium Technology Partner
Kong is excited to announce Solace as the newest member of our Premium Technology Partner Program, a program designed to deliver high-quality, reliable integrations that provide real business value for customers. Together, Kong and Solace unify API-driven and real-time data movement into a single,…
The Enterprise API Strategy Cookbook: 8 Ingredients for Legacy Modernization
This is the pitch to the board and the C-suite. It must be brutally concise, focused entirely on your business outcomes, not the technology. If the first page doesn't articulate value, the strategy dies. It immediately frames the initiative in terms of shareholder value and competitive advantage.…
Agentic AI Cost Management: Stopping Margin Erosion and the Fragmentation Tax
AI spending is exploding across the organization—but often not in the ways leadership approved or finance can track. Development teams spin up LLM connections to ship features faster. Data teams provision GPU clusters for experiments that get abandoned. Multiple teams solve the same problem three…
Agentic AI Governance: Managing Shadow AI and Risk for Competitive Advantage
Let's be honest about what's happening inside most enterprises right now. Development teams are under intense pressure to ship AI features. The mandate from leadership is clear: move fast. And so they do. They spin up LLM connections, integrate third-party AI tools, and route data to models without…
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View AllFrom APIs to Agentic Integration: Introducing Kong Context Mesh
Agents are ultimately decision makers. They make those decisions by combining intelligence with context, ultimately meaning they are only ever as useful as the context they can access. An agent that can't check inventory levels, look up customer history, or verify pricing isn't autonomous — it's…
Kong MCP Registry: Connect AI Agents with the Right Tools
The Kong MCP Registry acts as a central directory for AI agents and clients to access services that provide context or take action. For AI agents, think of it as a combination of a "Service Catalog" and a "Developer Portal." It offers the metadata, API endpoints, and capability definitions that…
Building Secure AI Agents with Kong's MCP Proxy and Volcano SDK
The example below shows how an AI agent can be built using Volcano SDK with minimal code, while still interacting with backend services in a controlled way. The agent is created by first configuring an LLM, then defining an MCP (Model Context Protocol) endpoint that represents a promotions service.…
What is a MCP Gateway? The Missing Piece for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
AI agents are spreading across organizations rapidly. Each agent needs secure access to different Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Authentication becomes complex. Scaling creates bottlenecks. The dreaded "too many endpoints" problem emerges. You face a classic AI infrastructure headache. The…
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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.