In one of our posts, Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server technical breakdown, we described the new capabilities added to Kong AI Gateway to support MCP (Model Context Protocol). The post focused exclusively on consuming MCP server and MCP tools through Kong MCP Gateway. Now, it's time to check…
Every January, the same resolutions show up: eat better, exercise more, finally learn that language, finally figure out that production use case for AI agents (OK, this one isn’t so typical unless you operate in our universe). But if you're responsible for your organization's AI strategy, we'd like…
A decade ago, we set out to connect the world through APIs, which we saw as fundamental building blocks of software. Before Kong, we founded Mashape as the first API marketplace to provide an assembly line for developers building apps, and then we open-sourced its core API runtime, Kong, the…
We know that successful AI connectivity programs often start with an intense focus on how you govern and protect LLM and MCP traffic. This is why Kong was first to market with an enterprise-grade AI gateway , and it’s why, in our last release, we added enterprise MCP proxy support to our…
Companies are charging headfirst into AI, with research around agentic AI in the enterprise finding as many as 9 out of 10 organizations are actively working to adopt AI agents. LLMs are being deployed, agentic workflows are getting created left and right, and the promises of what this technology…
A close examination of what really powers the AI prompt unveils two technologies: the large language models (LLMs) that empower agents with intelligence and the ecosystem of MCP tools to deliver capabilities to the agents. While LLMs make your agents smart, it would be hard to provide agents with…
By: Abhishek Chauhan and Preesha Gehlot The Session History Plugin extends the Kong AI Gateway with persistent session objects that preserve conversation history across requests using the x-ai-session-id header. By integrating MongoDB for storage and implementing context summarization for efficient…
The numbers tell a compelling story. While 65% of organizations that use APIs are currently generating revenue from them, a significant gap exists between API adoption and AI readiness. 83.2% of respondents have adopted some level of an API-first approach. Yet only 25% operate as fully API-first…
That’s a wrap on API Summit 2025 ! At our eighth annual event, the brightest minds in the worlds of APIs and AI gathered in New York City to define the next chapter of digital innovation. We're entering an era where APIs are not just connecting services but connecting intelligence. APIs are the…
Data might be the fuel for AI. But APIs are the proper way to package that “fuel” as AI-ready “food” is through the API. AI coding tools can do a lot without APIs, but at some point they’ll need to be able to: . . . and all ideally without the engineer having to…
Today, we're open-sourcing Volcano SDK, a TypeScript SDK for building AI agents that combines LLM reasoning with real-world actions through MCP tools. Why Volcano SDK? One reason: because 9 lines of code are faster to write and easier to manage than 100+ . Without Volcano SDK? You'd need 100+ lines…
The solution landscape is complicated by the fact that MCP is still finding its footing, and there are many various OSS projects and vendors that are rapidly shipping “MCP support” in an attempt to take advantage of the hype and attention around MCP. Unfortunately, many early attempts at solutions…
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”…
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.…
Ever feel like you're fighting an uphill battle with your API strategy? You're building APIs faster than ever, but somehow everything feels harder. Wasn’t API-first supposed to make all this easier? Well, you're not alone. And now industry analysts are noting it as well. New Gartner research on…
Calling all builders, tinkerers, and API innovators. The Kong Hackathon is back for API Summit 2025 ! This year, we’re challenging developers worldwide to create projects that don’t just react, they think , adapt , and act . The theme? Agentic AI : solutions that take initiative, make decisions,…
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.