Gartner published a report last week (1) that I think marks a genuine inflection point for how enterprise technology leaders should think about AI strategy. The headline finding: we have crossed a threshold where competitive advantage in the AI era is no longer about access to data — it's about…
Last week, Gartner published a report titled MCP Servers Will Fuel the Next AI Revenue Surge — Context as a Service (1) that should be required reading for every enterprise technology leader. Then, Kong CEO Augusto Marietti (Aghi for short) wrote out his thoughts on the subject and why context is…
The promise of agentic AI is clear: autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and act on your behalf. But there's a fundamental problem standing between that vision and enterprise reality: agents need context to make decisions, and that context lives scattered across your organization. Context is…
For too long, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has operated on a principle of open access: connect an AI agent to an MCP server, and it gets access to every single tool that server offers. While this approach is simple for initial experimentation, it quickly becomes a liability in production.…
In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven development, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the critical standard for connecting AI applications to the data and tools they need. We are excited to announce the Technical Preview (TP) of Kong MCP Registry , a major milestone in our…
While every organization races to deploy AI agents faster, finance departments are watching something alarming unfold—and it will play a large part in determining who survives the agentic era. The numbers are stark: 84% of companies report more than 6% gross margin erosion from AI costs. Within…
While every organization races to deploy AI agents faster, a quieter crisis is compounding in the background, and it will play a large part in determining who survives the agentic era. The numbers are stark. Too many executives see AI governance as a brake on innovation or something to figure out…
Modern AI applications are no longer just about sending prompts to an LLM and returning text. As soon as AI systems need to interact with real business data, internal APIs, or operational workflows, the problem becomes one of orchestration, security, and control. The challenge is to build secure AI…
KAi, the AI assistant inside Kong Konnect, just got significantly more capable. Today, we're announcing an enhanced beta version powered by the new Kong Konnect MCP Server — a shared infrastructure layer that also opens up your API platform to IDE copilots and custom agents . The result? KAi can…
Gartner just published research that should be required reading for every platform and infrastructure leader building for the agentic era. The report, " How to Enable Agentic AI via API-Based Integration ," makes a stark claim: incrementally reworking existing APIs and connector-based integrations…
The agentic era is here, and it's exposing a critical gap in enterprise infrastructure. AI agents are no longer experimental. As many as 9 out of 10 enterprise organizations are actively adopting AI agents. Agents are making autonomous decisions, orchestrating complex workflows, and interacting…
Kong AI Gateway 3.13 introduces MCP Tool ACLs , a powerful feature that enables fine-grained authorization and granular security policies for individual AI agent tools, solving the 'all-or-nothing' access problem. The evolution of AI agents and autonomous systems has created new challenges for…
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…
If your 2026 resolution is to finally get AI costs under control , we've got you covered. 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…
Kong was born to connect. The world is shifting from connecting cloud services with apps to connecting LLMs through agents. API calls and tokens are moving in tandem; a new unit of intelligence is forming. As AI traffic explodes into hypervolumes, speed is all that matters. The same principles of…
