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…
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…
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…
In January 2025, the OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice became RFC 9700 ( RFC 9700 - Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security ). This technical milestone symbolizes a broader transformation. APIs are no longer just developer tools – they're regulated infrastructure powering everything…
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…
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…
If you’ve been following Kong, you know that Kong was the first in the API platform space to introduce an enterprise-grade AI Gateway for LLM workloads. Today, we’ve also introduced a new enterprise-grade MCP Gateway to ensure that you can roll out production-ready MCP deployments. But we are…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a transformative shift in how AI agents connect to data and tools, but the path to production-readiness and real-world AI value is still fraught with challenges. As organizations rush to adopt MCP and build agentic workflows, they're encountering four…
Disclaimer: All of the opinions stated in this blog are my own and do not represent official Gartner opinions on the API Management and Integration markets or the Magic Quadrant report itself. The 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management report was a great one for us here at Kong. We continue…
While more and more organizations are seeking to standardize and consolidate their API and AI infrastructure efforts in a unified platform , the reality is that many — especially large — organizations already have disparate API deployments across disparate API gateways. One common API gateway that…
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,…
In my previous post, we discussed how we can implement a basic AI Agent with Kong AI Gateway. In part two of this series, we're going to review LangGraph fundamentals, rewrite the AI Agent and explore how Kong AI Gateway can be used to protect an LLM infrastructure as well as external functions.…
This is part one of a series exploring how Kong AI Gateway can be used in an AI Agent development with LangGraph. The series comprises three parts: Basic ReAct AI Agent with Kong AI Gateway Single LLM ReAct AI Agent with Kong AI Gateway and LangGraph Multi-LLM ReAct AI Agent and LangGraph Server…