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For the third consecutive year, we're happy to announce that Kong has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management and is positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger…
Working in a global company can come with a few challenges. As one Konger starts work at 9 a.m. in San Francisco, it's the middle of the night in Singapore, the sun's about to set in London, and New Yorkers are ducking out for lunch. When your teammates aren't confined to a single office,…
Kong API Summit has come and gone! Whether you joined us in San Francisco or missed this year's big shindig, here are some of the highlights from the event and a round-up of all the Kong news dropped over the past two days. Kong Summit 2022 was back in-person after two years of digital-only…
As companies are transforming themselves to compete in the cloud era, there's renewed emphasis on delivering seamless customer experience, improving IT infrastructure, and releasing applications faster. As companies embark on the cloud adoption journey, Red Hat OpenShift gives developers a greater…
Kong has been hard at work to provide our customers' the best user experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. We've seen tremendous growth in our partnership with AWS in terms of joint solutions (co-build), building awareness through events and workshops (co-market), and growth in the…
We created the Kong Champions program as a way to acknowledge and encourage community members, such as developers and advocates, who are going above and beyond in the Kong community. They help us to grow, learn, and create better tools and products as a company. With 18 Champions all over the…
One of Kong's core values is to be an "Explorer" — to be ever curious, always learning, and willing to make bold moves. This value can be demonstrated in many ways, from questioning the status quo to taking on new (and often intimidating) challenges. Most of us grow as a function of simply doing…
Join the builders and leaders taming the API jungle live and in person at Kong Summit 2022 September 28-29, 2022, at the historic Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. Registration is now open . Kong Summit 2022 will feature more than 70 speakers across over 40 sessions, with insights from…
Each year at Kong Summit , we shine a light on projects and people ahead of the pack in their use of Kong. And what better way to do that than with a shiny gorilla statue. We call them the API Innovator Awards . The API Innovator Awards recognize outstanding and future-facing projects from…
TBC Bank is a technology-driven company in Georgia. We are happy to announce that we have chosen Kong to improve our API ecosystem and leverage its technological resources, expertise and international footprint to further simplify the daily lives of our users. TBC wanted to partner with a company…
Our Kong family continues to grow! Today, we're beyond excited to welcome Chirag Shah to the leadership team as our new chief financial officer (CFO) . Chirag will play an instrumental role in growing operations and helping Kong scale to new heights in the year to come. He joins us from Cornerstone…
We're thrilled to welcome Juliette Rizkallah to the Kong family as our first chief marketing officer ! Juliette brings a unique background grounded in business, strategy and data-driven marketing that will help take Kong to new heights. A seasoned leader with more than 30 years of experience in…
As organizations look to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, a couple of key trends are prevalent. First, there is a movement from monolithic to smaller cloud native microservices. Second, there is more pressure to innovate, resulting in an explosion of APIs and connections to…
Many organizations have been able to accomplish impressive things using Kong products, including Kong Konnect, Kong Enterprise, Kong Gateway, Kuma and Insomnia. We recently honored four of these enterprises in the inaugural Cloud Connectivity Innovator Awards program during Kong Summit 2021.…
As Kong continues to expand its global footprint, we recently added Kore Labs , experts in FinTech digital product lifecycle management solutions, to the Kong customer community in the UK. Kore built its cloud-enabled solution on top of Kong in order to revamp its architecture to scale and provide…
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