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What is API Security?

Learning CenterJuly 3, 2025

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Address Both Sides of API Discovery with Konnect’s Holistic Experience

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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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Kong Service Catalog: The Producer Side of API Discovery

Product ReleasesJuly 1, 2025

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…

Michael Field

Create an Internal API and Service Inventory with Konnect Service Catalog

Product ReleasesJuly 1, 2025

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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Build Reuse into Your API Program with Konnect Dev Portal

Product ReleasesJuly 1, 2025

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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Kong's New Developer Portal: Modern UX Meets Developer Self-Service

Product ReleasesJuly 1, 2025

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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Introducing create-api.dev

EngineeringJuly 1, 2025

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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Is Ambient Mesh the Future of Service Mesh?

EnterpriseJune 30, 2025

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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Kong Konnect: Introducing HashiCorp Vault Support for LLMs

Product ReleasesJune 26, 2025

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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5 Steps to Immediately Reduce Kafka Cost and Complexity

EnterpriseJune 24, 2025

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…

Umair Waheed

Kong Mesh 2.11: Reduced Privileges, Improved Support for AWS ECS

Product ReleasesJune 20, 2025

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…

Umair Waheed

Kong's Dedicated Cloud Gateways: A Deep Dive

Product ReleasesJune 18, 2025

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…

Michael Field

72% Say Enterprise GenAI Spending Going Up in 2025, Study Finds

EnterpriseJune 18, 2025

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…

Eric Pulsifer

7 Signs Your Kafka Environment Needs an API Platform

EnterpriseJune 12, 2025

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…

Umair Waheed

How Power Dynamic Technology Scaled SecureID with Kong Konnect and Azure Cloud

EnterpriseJune 9, 2025

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, secure and scalable identity verification systems are the backbone of trust. That’s where SecureID , a European digital identity platform, identified an opportunity to provide secure, private, and compliant digital identification. The SecureID platform…

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