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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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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We are thrilled to be once again recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API Management . We believe this recognition reinforces our commitment to our customers, who rely on us to continue innovating so they can build solutions that unlock growth, security and…
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We are now deep into our most anticipated event of the year, Kong API Summit 2021 (there's still time to register for Day 2!). More than 4,000 people have registered from 87 countries for the virtual event. After a full day of knowledge and surprises, we are excited to recap the most memorable…
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In 2019, my team at Kong introduced a new open source project called Kuma . Now a sandbox project of the CNCF , Kuma is a modern, universal control plane for service mesh based on Envoy . As we celebrate Kuma's achievements, I want to thank the Kuma community for your support and…
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What a year we have had! Hypergrowth, a huge community, and lots of recognition. But what we are most proud of is how Kong's technology has impacted the world, thanks to our users. We can't thank these users and the community enough for making Kong the most adopted open source API gateway out…
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This year's Kong API Summit is no ordinary virtual conference. We are taking our attendees into the heart of San Francisco for an action-packed interactive event. This is not one you will want to save for later. [iframe src="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ClurVEX4oV0" frameborder="0"…
[](/blog/news/why-attend-kong-summit)This year, for the first time, Kong Summit will feature a highly anticipated annual event, the Cloud Connectivity Innovator Awards. These awards officially recognize individuals and teams who have used Kong's technology to accelerate digital transformation within their organizations. The call for…
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Kong's much anticipated Summit is back. Focused on Developing the Connected World, Kong API Summit 2021 will give you the tools to build new ideas, create actionable best practices and get hands-on with guiding your organization through transformation, delivering exciting innovation and securing…
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🎂 Make a wish and blow out the candles…we're celebrating Kong's sixth anniversary! 👏👏👏 In 2015, Mashape open sourced Kong Gateway , launching the next generation of API management. In our last anniversary post, I took a look back at our history . For this 6th anniversary post, I'll focus on how…
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Join Kong at this year's Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit. The much anticipated virtual event will feature thought leaders like Kong CTO and Co-Founder Marco Palladino . Gartner's Summit brings together application leaders from around the world to improve the way they…
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It's official! For the second year in a row, Kong has been certified as a Great Place to Work® ! We are thrilled to share that 94% of our employees say that Kong is a great place to work - 35% higher than the average U.S.-based company. This award is not only a true…
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