The explosion of AI-native applications is upon us. With each new week, massive innovations are being made in how AI-centric applications are being built. There are a variety of tools developers need to consider, be it supplying live contextual data via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or…
In support of our partnership with AWS, we're re-examining how some of our major customers today are using Kong with AWS. To this end, let's look at our popular case study with Cargill. For over 150 years, Cargill has been on a mission to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable…
Different teams, different preferences API orchestration at the gateway layer can involve coordinating multiple services, transforming data, and managing request flows. Some teams prefer working directly with configuration files — they appreciate the precision, version control integration, and…
Modern enterprises are embracing multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize costs, and ensure resilience. Yet managing API infrastructure (which also happens to be AI infrastructure) across multiple cloud providers while maintaining performance and simplicity remains a significant…
We're excited to announce the general availability of Konnect Debugger, formerly known as Active Tracing during its tech preview phase. This powerful debugging and observability solution in Kong Konnect has evolved from a focused tracing tool into a comprehensive debugging platform. Konnect Debugge…
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…
Today, I'm excited to announce one of our largest Kong AI Gateway releases (3.11), which ships with several new features critical in building modern and reliable AI agents in production. We strongly recommend updating to this version to get access to the latest and greatest that AI infrastructure…
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…
When was the last time your AI assistant confused a memo from the CEO with 'Game of Thrones' plot lines? Have you ever asked a chatbot a question, only to receive an answer that was not only wrong but hilariously outdated? Imagine asking about the latest iPhone model and getting a response…
Starting with Kong CE 0.13 and the upcoming EE 0.32, it is possible to separate control and data planes in a Kong cluster. So what are those planes? The control plane is how we instrument the system (pushing configs, fetching logs), whereas the data plane is the traffic that is actually being…
When we build software, it's critical that we test and roll-out the software in a controlled manner. To make sure this happens, we make use of available tools and best practices to make sure that the software works as intended. We conduct code reviews, execute all the possible unit, integration,…
This is the second of two blogs examining considerations for transitioning to a microservices-based architecture. For more information, check out our e-book Blowing Up the Monolith: Adopting a Microservices-Based Architecture . In our previous blog, we outlined the five questions we must consider…
Developers are turning to microservices in greater numbers to help break through the inflexibility of old monolithic applications. Microservices offer many benefits, including separation of concerns, team autonomy, fault tolerance, and scaling across multiple regions for high availability. Learn…
As part of our series helping you get up to speed on the new features released in Kong CE 0.14 , we want to dive into one of our most exciting and long-awaited features - Dynamic Injection for Nginx Directives. This new feature enables Kong users to easily exercise greater control over their Nginx…
Over the past few months, you may have noticed the explosion of industry chatter and articles surrounding service mesh and the future of software architecture. These discussions have been highly polarizing, with tribes forming around specific vendors. While this partisan trend is to be expected,…