2025 was a breakout year for Kong Cloud Gateways. As organizations continue to modernize architectures, adopt AI-driven workloads, and operate in increasingly regulated environments, the need for secure, high-performance, and flexible API infrastructure has never been greater. This year, Kong Cloud…
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We’re thrilled to share that Kong Konnect, our unified API and AI platform, has been named a winner of Foundry Co.'s InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2025 in the API Management category. InfoWorld’s annual awards recognize the most innovative software development, DevOps, cloud, data…
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The rise of intelligent agents and AI prompts is transforming APIs from mere infrastructure into the capability ecosystem of the agentic era, driving a new model of ecosystem-led growth . To prepare for the inevitable explosion of agent-driven API traffic, enterprises are prioritizing a strategic…
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The messaging and data streaming industries are constantly evolving, with major shifts such as large vendor purchases. If your company relies heavily on a platform such as Apache Kafka and you recently discovered that your vendor was acquired by a competitor, you are most likely dealing with a…
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Companies are rapidly adopting AI, but it's not all roses. The excitement comes with significant risks, such as shadow AI, runaway costs, and security nightmares. This post explores the real challenges organizations face in AI governance today and highlights how forward-thinking companies are…
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"Too much information running through my brain." When The Police sang this opening line on their 1981 album Ghost in the Machine , they weren't thinking about artificial intelligence, but the sentiment perfectly captures the state of modern AI. The song warns of an overload of data that parallels…
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Apache Kafka powers real-time data at companies processing substantial event volumes daily. The new KRaft architecture makes getting started easier than ever. The platform handles massive data flows for more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies ( Apache Kafka ), according to the Apache Software…
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The EU AI Act is here, and for many enterprises, it represents a massive coordination challenge. As the world’s first comprehensive AI law, it mandates strict governance on transparency, risk management, and data quality. For platform engineers and architects, the immediate question is operational:…
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The integration of next-generation AI workloads — from large language models (LLMs) to speech-to-text and text-to-speech — demands a powerful, secure, and scalable infrastructure. This is especially true for building advanced AI voice agents, which rely on seamless, natural, and highly efficient…
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The Kubernetes networking landscape is evolving, and recent announcements confirm a significant community shift. The Kubernetes community recently announced the upcoming retirement of one of its most widely used components: Ingress NGINX "To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem,…
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A burgeoning cutting-edge technology has been fundamentally transforming how we build automation inside disruptive businesses: agentic AI. The impact of agentic AI is already shaping up to be massive. And agentic adoption is soaring: Kong's Agentic AI in the Enterprise report found that, of those…
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We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 12! Insomnia 12 TL;DR? This release is about making Insomnia smarter, faster, and more accessible. Whether you’re building for agentic AI or API endpoints, solo or with a team, Insomnia 12 gives you the tools to move faster. Get…
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Traditional API Gateways: Excellent for routing, auth, and microservice traffic; poor at AI workloads. Limitations: Can't track tokens, manage streaming responses, enforce content-level security, or use semantic caching. AI Gateways Purpose-built for LLMs with: Architecture Recommendation: Layered…
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We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 5th Annual Kong Hackathon , held in conjunction with API Summit 2025. We challenged solo hackers and full-stack teams worldwide to create projects that don’t just react, they think, adapt, and act autonomously. Clearly, this year's theme was agentic AI…
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There's a familiar pattern playing out across the enterprise world right now: a company moves fast on generative AI, different teams spin up their own LLM integrations, and within months the organization is sitting on a sprawling, ungoverned tangle of API keys, ad-hoc logging, and invisible cost…
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