Building trust starts with small things, like making sure every commit tells the right story. That’s where Insomnia’s v12 AI Commit capability comes in. Developers want to write code. It’s what they’re good at and what they enjoy doing. But writing detailed, well-structured commit messages takes…
The 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management report was a great one for us here at Kong. We continue to move “up and to the right,” we remained in the “Leader” quadrant for the sixth year in a row, and we held our position as the “farthest right” on the “Completeness of vision”…
As defined by Gartner , the Gartner Magic Quadrant "offers visual snapshots, in-depth analyses and actionable advice that provide insight into a market’s direction, maturity and participants. The Magic Quadrant compares vendors based on the Gartner standard criteria and methodology. Each report…
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…
Consider the typical enterprise architecture in a relatively mature organization, an API management layer defines and deploys services to an API gateway, an Identity Provider (IDP) manages human user identities, and separate systems or at least separate control planes in the IDP handle…
While building a GenAI-powered agent for one of our company websites, I integrated components like LLM APIs, embedding models, and a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline. The application was deployed using a Flask API backend and secured with API keys. However, post-deployment, several…
Feed Agents (and humans, too) with *all* of your APIs While multi-gateway vendor deployments have been found to be lacking as a long-term strategy, the reality is that every large organization is — at some point — going to struggle with trying to wrangle APIs across multiple API gateway solutions.…
Simplified controller configuration When using the Kong Ingress Controller, a significant amount of effort was needed to apply configuration to the controller by setting environment variables. The new ControlPlane resource greatly simplifies this and allows you to set configuration once at the…
Why are Microservices Security Risks? Traditional security was simple. One perimeter. Few entry points. Clear boundaries. Microservices shattered this model. Now organizations manage hundreds of independent services. The average number of API calls to an enterprise site has risen to an…
If you're building distributed applications or working in cloud native development, you know that robust connectivity and API governance are the foundations for speed and scale. However, this also holds true in the realm of event streaming. Many top companies now depend on Apache Kafka and…
The Challenge: Securing Distributed Systems Netflix operates over 1,000 microservices handling two billion daily requests (Microservices architecture: from Netflix to APIs). One security gap can trigger cascading breaches. Traditional perimeter security fails in microservices. Services multiply…
Organizations are gradually realizing that API and AI observability aren't two separate problems; they're intertwined and require unified solutions. Without waiting on engineering, it's hard to answer simple questions like "Who's using my APIs?" or "Which APIs are causing the most issues?" Now…
Control Plane Groups in Kong Konnect provide a structured way to manage multiple control planes within a single organization. Think of it as a federated approach: different teams can deploy and manage their own APIs while still adhering to overarching policies set by a central governance team.…
As of September 2025, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
We're very excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.12 to the world! Kong Mesh 2.12 delivers two very important features: SPIFFE / SPIRE support, which provides enterprise-class workload identity and trust models for your mesh, as well as a consistent Kuma Resource Identifier (KRI) naming convention for…
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.