The proper management of APIs is vital for organizations seeking to optimize their digital experiences and application performance. API management solutions facilitate the efficient administration of APIs by offering several features such as access control, rate limiting, developer portals,…
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) are everywhere, and they play a role in running nearly everything in our digital-centric lives. Each time you launch a web page or an app on your phone, dozens of API calls are happening in the background to render an experience heavily customized to you.…
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For over a century, Goldman Sachs has been one of the most recognizable names in multinational investment banking and financial services. When they speak, the market listens. So what does Goldman Sachs have to say about APIs and AI when it comes to serving its clients and fueling business success?…
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At API Summit , Kong announced the upcoming beta release of a brand new gateway deployment method in Kong Konnect: Serverless Gateways. Designed for speed, simplicity of use, and affordability, it’s the quickest way to deploy a Kong Gateway. Today, we're pumped to announce that all Konnect Plus…
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Walk into any of the over 1,300 Michaels stores in the US or Canada, and you can’t help but be inspired. Since 1973, the arts and crafts specialty retailer has been sparking creativity for millions. But behind Michaels’ operations, there’s creativity on the technology front as well. In recent…
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In this blog post, we'll talk about how to implement API product tiering, a powerful way to customize access, control usage, and monetize APIs. This model can help you scale efficiently while maintaining a smooth user experience. Read on to learn more! We'll be talking about how to implement API…
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APIs are essential to modern applications, but managing access and security policies can be complex. Traditional access control mechanisms can fall short when flexible, scalable, and fine-grained control over who can access specific resources is needed. This is where OPA (Open Policy Agent) steps…
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For the last couple of years, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures have become a rising trend for AI-based applications. Generally speaking, RAG offers a solution to some of the limitations in traditional generative AI models, such as accuracy and hallucinations, allowing companies to…
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As a follow-up to our recent Kong Insomnia v10 release that shipped with an unlimited and free Collection Runner and one week after announcing our official SCIM support for automated user provisioning, we're now excited to announce Insomnia v10.1. This release ships with the general availability of…
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Today we're excited to introduce SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) support in Kong Insomnia to automatically provision and deprovision user accounts using a third-party IDP. This capability will enormously simplify the process of onboarding enterprise users into Insomnia, and it's…
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Before we dive in, we want to remind our readers that the Konnect engineering team actively uses Kong products like Kong Gateway, Kong Mesh, and Insomnia. In this post, we'll showcase the power of Kong Gateway and two plugins — the JQ and Request Transformer Advanced Plugins — to govern and…
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For the last 10+ years, Docker has been one of the leading technology tools for helping developers build, run, update, and manage containers. It is one of the most widely used containerization tools available, able to work with Linux, Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, and all of the leading cloud…
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It’s no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way companies operate with its ability to sift through mountains of data and make accurate predictions at record speed. But with great power comes great responsibility. As AI systems are more regularly incorporated into…
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Multimodal AI is a critical player in the new wave of artificial intelligence. By combining different types of data like text, images, and audio, multimodal AI creates more intuitive and versatile AI systems that can more closely mimic human decision-making. Whether it’s for a virtual healthcare…
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The main fundamental question of every business today: Are you on the right side of AI? Many businesses and investors are facing the big question: will they get AI-fied and die slowly or will they be propelled by AI and grow faster? Kong API tools and the Konnect API platform will bring our…
[](/blog/news/kong-konnect-the-api-platform-for-ai)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.