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As 2023 gets played off and 2024 eagerly awaits its turn in the spotlight, let’s look back at the past 365-ish days in the land of Kong. It’s the year's final post, and we’re playing nothing but the hits! Read on for a recap of the biggest Kong news from 2023. Kong Inc. surpassed…
Watching Kong grow from a tiny place over the years has been a once-in-a-lifetime shared journey with our Kongers and investors. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that Kong has recently reached another instrumental milestone: surpassing $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). This…
In October, we hosted a total of 11 Meetups all around the globe — an absolute record for us! Kong handles 400 billion API calls a day. That's a lot of API calls. And that means there are a lot of you around the world using Kong. From San Francisco to Dubai, Kong has…
Kong Mesh has been named a Leader and Outperformer in the 2023 GigaOm® Radar for Service Mesh report. We feel this awesome achievement highlights Kong's ongoing commitment to innovation and ease of use in the service mesh space. The GigaOm Radar report is a market analysis focused on identifying…
Kong is expanding its global footprint with a new joint venture in Japan. In partnership with Japan Cloud — a Tokyo-based consultancy that helps high-growth cloud companies to succeed in Japan — Kong is establishing a local subsidiary in Tokyo to accelerate growth in the Japanese market. Japan…
API Summit 2023 is a wrap! Over the two-day conference (our sixth-annual event), we packed in over 40 hours of content in 100 sessions touching on everything from ensuring reliable connectivity to generative AI. We heard from investors about the future of APIs, as well as stories from users and…
The growth of APIs continues to drive our digital economy, and API management underpins the success of every modern application and the businesses that depend on their success. Today, we are very excited to announce the release of an essential guide to building and managing next-generation API…
The Kong and Amazon (AWS) partnership is stronger than ever! As Kong continues to evolve, with Kong Konnect and Kong Mesh, the means of integrating with AWS grows as well. In a continuous effort to offer cutting-edge collaborations, Kong announces new Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) based…
We’re excited to announce the 3rd Annual Kong Hackathon in conjunction with API Summit 2023 ! This year, the Hackathon will focus on API innovation using Artificial Intelligence. AI is revolutionizing the world, and we want to create an opportunity for the Kong community to experiment with AI…
Calling all innovators, software development wizards, and game-changers! Are you pushing the boundaries of digital transformation with APIs, microservices, service mesh, and beyond? Then we want to celebrate your story and achievements. The team here at Kong is thrilled to roll out the red carpet…
Today we're honored to announce Kong has been recognized as a 2023 Customers’ Choice in the Gartner® Peer Insights™ for Full Life Cycle API Management. We believe this recognition highlights the trust and passion Kong's customers have for Kong's cloud native API platform to deliver speed and…
You may be wondering, "What's so special about the Kong Community? Why should I be a part of it?" The answer is pretty simple: it's the people and the way they empower one another. Throughout my career working in tech, I've never seen a community that's so diverse yet so close at the same…
We started 2023 by closing our fiscal year and achieving hypergrowth — once again. We've surpassed 600 customers, increased our employee base by 22% year over year, opened our newest office in Singapore following rapid growth in the Asia Pacific region, and expanded meetups to 46 countries and more…
Today we're pleased to announce a new strategic partnership and resale agreement with Imperva . Imperva customers will now be able to directly license Kong Enterprise, the fastest, most feature-rich, and secure API management solution. In addition, Kong customers will be able to use the Imperva API…
At Kong, we're always looking to expand the experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. As we steadily move into 2023, we want to continue this streak because we see firsthand the tremendous growth and success it provides our customers. Today, we're excited to announce that the Kong API…
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