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Kong does not rely on LiteLLM — whether PyPI-distributed or otherwise — for any components in our runtime stack. As you may know, a supply chain vulnerability affecting LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8, a popular open-source AI proxy library, was publicized yesterday. The malicious package,…
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For product teams, the long days of lengthy Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) and rigid documentation workflows are giving way to something faster and more dynamic. They’re now using AI to generate prototypes, validate concepts with virtual customers, and move from idea to working software in a…
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The Gartner report profiles Kong’s Insomnia as “an API development platform that promotes collaboration during development and testing,” a recognition that reflects our commitment to give development teams of any size a purpose-built environment for every stage of the API lifecycle. Beyond the…
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SiliconANGLE Media runs this annual awards program to recognize companies, technologies, and people moving the needle in B2B tech. Winners go through a review process by industry analysts and experts. Kong was recognized as the 2026 AI Innovator of the Year for its role in building the connectivity…
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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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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,…
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With major advances in building the AI connectivity layer and soaring enterprise adoption of agentic systems, this year sparked a hockey-stick surge in demand for the infrastructure that powers intelligent agents. Below is a rundown on the updates, the innovations, and the moments that moved the…
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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…
[](/blog/news/the-age-of-ai-connectivity)InfoWorld’s annual awards recognize the most innovative software development, DevOps, cloud, data management, and AI/ML products on the information technology landscape. We are extremely proud to see Kong Konnect recognized for its role in unifying API and AI connectivity for stronger governance,…
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By: Abhishek Chauhan and Preesha Gehlot The Session History Plugin extends the Kong AI Gateway with persistent session objects that preserve conversation history across requests using the x-ai-session-id header. By integrating MongoDB for storage and implementing context summarization for efficient…
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As a recognized leader in the API management and AI connectivity space, we're excited to be participating in re:Invent 2025, hosting executive meetings, and bringing together the community for meaningful conversations about modern API and AI strategies. Want to learn more about how Kong can help…
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Recognizing the visionaries who are transforming the future of APIs and AI The Kong Innovator Awards celebrate organizations redefining what's possible and leveraging APIs and AI to solve real business challenges and drive meaningful transformation with Kong technologies. This year's winners…
[](/blog/news/2025-kong-innovator-awards-winners)That’s a wrap on API Summit 2025 ! At our eighth annual event, the brightest minds in the worlds of APIs and AI gathered in New York City to define the next chapter of digital innovation. We're entering an era where APIs are not just connecting services but connecting intelligence. APIs are the…
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As defined by Gartner , the Gartner Magic Quadrant "offers visual snapshots, in-depth analyses and actionable advice that provide insight into a market’s direction, maturity and participants. The Magic Quadrant compares vendors based on the Gartner standard criteria and methodology. Each report…
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Third-party recognition is always a significant milestone, but being included across multiple categories by a leading research firm like Gartner? That's definitely worth celebrating. Kong has been featured in eight different categories across six Gartner hype cycles for 2025*— our most…
[](/blog/news/kong-gartner-hype-cycle)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.