Every few months, a frontier AI lab makes a move that says the quiet part out loud: agents are only as useful as the systems they can reach. The latest example is Anthropic's acquisition of Stainless, the company behind the tooling that turns API specs into SDKs and MCP servers. Anthropic's own…
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Customers today face significant challenges as their Kubernetes environments scale. The proliferation of microservices, external integrations, and new AI workloads increases traffic volume and connectivity complexity, creating material risks to performance and availability. The core issue is a lack…
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AI agents are only as capable as the tools they can reach. When an agent needs to query a database, file a support ticket, or pull data from a CRM, it has to find the right tool, authenticate, and invoke it — all at runtime. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how agents communicate…
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Key takeaways - An MCP server is a lightweight process that exposes tools, resources, and prompts to AI applications over a standardized protocol. - It acts as the bridge between an LLM-powered client and an external system — a database, API, file system, or SaaS product. - The protocol…
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Three-quarters of enterprises are now piloting or deploying AI agents. But here’s the problem: actually integrating those agents with enterprise applications is proving to be one of the hardest parts of the whole endeavor. That’s the core finding of a recent Gartner research note, How to Integrate…
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As organizations transition from experimental AI to production-grade systems, they often face a fragmented landscape of unmanaged LLM providers, complex tool integrations, and escalating security risks. Without a centralized orchestration layer, developers struggle to maintain consistent…
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You whipped up a simple MCP server prototype over the weekend. It routed a single AI agent to a few internal tools, your demo impressed leadership, and the team asked the dreaded question: "When can we ship?" You smiled and said, "Give me two weeks." Fast-forward three months . You’re firefighting…
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Modern enterprise architecture faces a three-body problem. Three distinct traffic patterns pull your teams in different directions. External APIs serve mobile apps and partner integrations. Internal microservices communicate within Kubernetes clusters. AI and LLM calls flow to OpenAI, AWS Bedrock,…
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AI connectivity is enterprise infrastructure that governs, secures, routes, observes, and optimizes all AI interactions —providing the control layer organizations need to transform experimental AI into production-ready systems. Executive Summary AI adoption has moved past the "honeymoon phase" and…
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We're excited to announce that Kong just took home the AI Innovator of the Year award from SiliconANGLE Media's 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards. SiliconANGLE Media runs this annual awards program to recognize companies, technologies, and people moving the needle in B2B tech. Winners go through a…
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The APIs that have been powering websites and apps created a massive market, but there are only up to 8 billion humans consuming them behind pixels. As LLMs are taking over the world — in the form of productized agents first — there will be 100X more machines than humans. The internet built for…
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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…
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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…
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AI agents are spreading across organizations rapidly. Each agent needs secure access to different Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Authentication becomes complex. Scaling creates bottlenecks. The dreaded "too many endpoints" problem emerges. You face a classic AI infrastructure headache. The…
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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…
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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…
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