In February 2024, Kong became the first API platform to launch a dedicated AI gateway, designed to bring production-grade performance, observability, and policy enforcement to GenAI workloads. At its core, Kong’s AI Gateway provides a universal API to enable platform teams to centrally secure and…
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Imagine you've built a sophisticated smart house, controlling everything from lights to the espresso machine with just a smartphone tap. Now picture a hacker hijacking your system, turning your morning latte into a high-tech security breach. This collision of connectivity and vulnerability…
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When we released the beta version of Service Catalog last September, it was in service of a greater API discovery vision we had for Kong Konnect as an API platform. In March of this year, we moved closer to fulfilling that vision when we announced our new, fully revamped Developer Portal designed…
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In case you missed it, we recently GA’d Kong Service Catalog as part of our broader API discovery initiative . While most API management vendors focus exclusively on the consumer side of API discovery with developer portals, we recognized a massive gap on the producer side. The result? A…
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When speaking with our customers, and particularly with platform teams, we repeatedly hear about how difficult it is to discover and govern all the services and APIs that actively run on their infrastructure. In ever-expanding and changing environments, platform teams often grapple with the…
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In March, we announced the public beta version of our reimagined Dev Portal. We set out to fully address the needs of the modern API consumer as well as the needs of the modern enterprise in promoting API adoption and reuse throughout the organization. We are excited to announce that the GA version…
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We just GA’d the new Kong Konnect Developer Portal as part of our broader API discovery initiative , and it represents a fundamental rethink of what a developer portal should be. Built from the ground up on a modern tech stack, it delivers both the simplicity teams need to get started fast and the…
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This started as an internal experiment to explore how AI could assist with API design, using similar standards to what Kong R&D applies to our own API design. It turned out to be useful enough that we decided to share it more broadly. Now it’s live at create-api.dev. No login. No setup. Just…
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The word on the street is that ambient mesh is the obvious evolution of service mesh technology — leaner, simpler, and less resource-intensive. But while ambient mesh is an exciting development, the reality is more nuanced. It is more than likely that a sidecar-based mesh is still a better fit for…
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If you're a builder, you likely keep sending your LLM credentials on every request from your agents and applications. But if you operate in an enterprise environment, you'll want to store your credentials in a secure third-party like HashiCorp Vault or IDP provider and have the infrastructure…
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Kafka delivers massive value for real-time businesses — but that value comes at a cost. As usage grows, so does complexity: more clusters, more topics, more partitions, more ACLs, more custom tooling. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If your team is managing Kafka at scale, here are five…
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We’re at it again, bringing more incremental improvements to Kong Mesh! Built on top of Kuma, Kong Mesh brings much-needed simplicity and production-grade tooling. Kong Mesh is built for smooth operations with platform teams in mind, providing security, observability, and traffic control for…
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Why switch to Dedicated Cloud Gateways? Well, the drivers for moving to managed cloud gateways are simple enough, as they mirror all the reasons behind why you would want to move any workload to the cloud. By choosing a DCGW, you benefit from faster time to market, easier scalability, and reduced…
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Enterprise adoption of large language models (LLMs) is surging. According to Gartner , more than 80% of enterprises will have deployed generative AI (GenAI) applications or used GenAI APIs by 2026, up from just 5% in 2023. That stark increase paints a telling picture: LLMs have evolved from a…
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Managing Kafka as an island on its own got you this far. But scaling it securely and efficiently across your organization? That's another matter entirely. Apache Kafka is the number-one event streaming platform used by developers and data engineers worldwide to build reliable, scalable real-time…
[](/blog/enterprise/7-signs-your-kafka-environment-needs-an-api-platform)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.