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## All Blogs

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# Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11.x.x EOL

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesJuly 3, 2026

As of July 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…

Kong

# AI Gateway vs. Direct LLM API Integration: The Architecture Decision Defining Your AI Strategy

[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)EngineeringJuly 2, 2026

Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating. In PwC's April 2025 survey of 308 US business executives, 88% said they plan to increase AI-related budgets in the next 12 months [1]. But scaling AI from pilot to production exposes a structural problem most teams discover too late: direct LLM API…

Kong

# AI Agent Platforms Are Getting Hacked. Here's What's Missing.

[Enterprise](/blog/tag/enterprise)EnterpriseJuly 2, 2026

In late June 2026, two of the most widely used AI agent platforms were compromised within the same week. Langflow disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw. Dify, powering over one million applications, revealed four vulnerabilities that exposed private conversations and…

Kong

# How to Switch LLM Providers Without Downtime

[Enterprise](/blog/tag/enterprise)EnterpriseJuly 2, 2026

LLM provider switching went from a theoretical concern to an operational emergency in June 2026, when Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a US government directive [3][6]. The shutdown was swift, with access suspended just days after the models launched. Enterprises that had…

Kong

# Why Your API Gateway Should Be Your Testing Environment

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesJuly 1, 2026

Kong Insomnia 13 delivers native Kong Konnect Gateway integration that lets developers query live gateway configuration directly from their terminal, so what they test is always what's deployed, with no manual spec imports and no stale collections. To get started for free, click here . You invested…

Haley Giuliano

# Stop AI Token Overspend: Prepaid Credits Are Now Live in Kong Konnect

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesJuly 1, 2026

AI moves fast: new models, new pricing, new capabilities, sometimes all at once. Prepaid credits let customers buy value upfront and spend it across whatever you're offering today or launch next, without needing to reprice, remigrate, or renegotiate every time something changes. Prepaid credits are…

Haley Giuliano

# KAi v2 is Live: The Agent Building Infrastructure for Agents

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesJune 30, 2026

A new version of KAi, the Kong Konnect agentic platform assistant, is live. This is the release that turns KAi from a knowledgeable guide into something that can actually build inside your org — of course, within guardrails that you control. Until now, KAi could tell you how to set up a service,…

Alex Drag

# Moving from Probabilistic Reasoning to Deterministic Execution

[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)EngineeringJune 24, 2026

This is the second post in a series. For the first part, see Why We Need to Stop Prompt Hacking . Generative AI systems do not fail because models are weak. They fail because architectures are incomplete. Once organizations accept that prompts cannot guarantee reliability, a new challenge emerges:…

Hugo Guerrero

# Kong Mesh 2.14: Finer Zone Proxy Control and Tighter Security

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesJune 23, 2026

Kong Mesh 2.14 delivers important improvements for multi-zone customers, with expanded policy support for zone proxies, new SNI-based matching for cross-zone and external-service traffic, stronger default security settings, and better observability through OpenTelemetry and Grafana dashboards. What…

Justin Davies

# Why We Need to Stop Prompt Hacking

[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)EngineeringJune 23, 2026

Generative AI has completely changed the landscape of enterprise automation, knowledge work and operational efficiency. In 2026, the question is no longer whether these models can perform complex tasks, but whether they can do so reliably enough for mission-critical systems. Despite the…

Hugo Guerrero

# How to Test Gateway APIs Directly from Kong Konnect with Insomnia

[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)EngineeringJune 22, 2026

As API ecosystems grow, developers and platform teams often work in separate environments. Platform teams manage APIs, gateways, and governance centrally, while developers recreate those configurations locally for testing and debugging. Over time, this can lead to configuration drift, inconsistent…

Juhi Singh

# Building the Agentic Commit Log: A Technical Blueprint with Apache Kafka and Kong

[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)EngineeringJune 19, 2026

This is part of a three-part series. For the full story, see Your AI Agent Knows What, It Doesn't Know Why and The Case for Kafka as the Agent's Memory Layer . We made the case for why agentic AI systems need a durable commit log rather than static state snapshots. The argument is…

Hugo Guerrero

# Kafka Was Built for This: The Case for Kafka as the Agent's Memory Layer

[Engineering](/blog/tag/engineering)EngineeringJune 17, 2026

This is part of a three-part series. For the full story, see Your AI Agent Knows What, It Doesn't Know Why and Building the Agentic Commit Log . Once you accept that agentic AI systems need a durable commit log — an ordered, immutable record of every tool call, decision, and context shift —…

Hugo Guerrero

# Insomnia 13: Native Kong Konnect Integration for Real-Time API Testing

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesJune 16, 2026

TL;DR: To get started for free, click here . Before you dig in, you may… Have you ever…. If you answered yes to any of these above…. We have great news: Friend, the Insomnia x Kong Konnect integration might just be for you. Kong Konnect is where your API truth lives. Every service, spec,…

Haley Giuliano

# Kong and Noma Partner to Deliver Advanced Agentic AI Security and Runtime Protection

[Enterprise](/blog/tag/enterprise)EnterpriseJune 15, 2026

AI agents move fast. Securing them shouldn't slow you down. Kong and Noma are partnering to change that. Noma is the newest member of Kong's Technology Partner Program . This program delivers high-quality, reliable integrations providing real business value for customers. Together, Kong and Noma…

Claudio Acquaviva
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