See how easily Konnect Metering & Billing transforms API and AI traffic management into new revenue streams. We've talked about why 2026 is the year of AI unit economics . There, we explored the "2025 hangover" where organizations realized that without financial governance, AI isn't just a science…
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…
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…
Happy holidays from the Kong team! Consider this our gift to everyone who's been asked "what's the ROI on AI?" one too many times. The AI boom has a dirty secret: for most enterprises, it's bleeding money. Every LLM call, every agent invocation, every API request that powers your AI products — they…
Kong AI Gateway 3.13 moves enterprises from AI experimentation to shipping production-grade agents by unlocking new capabilities focused on agentic security, developer productivity, and resilience, including MCP tool-level access control, expanded provider support, and smarter load balancing. 💡…
The rise of intelligent agents and AI prompts is transforming APIs from mere infrastructure into the capability ecosystem of the agentic era, driving a new model of ecosystem-led growth . To prepare for the inevitable explosion of agent-driven API traffic, enterprises are prioritizing a strategic…
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…
"Too much information running through my brain." When The Police sang this opening line on their 1981 album Ghost in the Machine , they weren't thinking about artificial intelligence, but the sentiment perfectly captures the state of modern AI. The song warns of an overload of data that parallels…
The EU AI Act is here, and for many enterprises, it represents a massive coordination challenge. As the world’s first comprehensive AI law, it mandates strict governance on transparency, risk management, and data quality. For platform engineers and architects, the immediate question is operational:…
The integration of next-generation AI workloads — from large language models (LLMs) to speech-to-text and text-to-speech — demands a powerful, secure, and scalable infrastructure. This is especially true for building advanced AI voice agents, which rely on seamless, natural, and highly efficient…
Traditional API Gateways: Excellent for routing, auth, and microservice traffic; poor at AI workloads. Limitations: Can't track tokens, manage streaming responses, enforce content-level security, or use semantic caching. AI Gateways Purpose-built for LLMs with: Architecture Recommendation: Layered…
Everyone's telling you to innovate faster with AI. Move quicker. Ship more features. Deploy more agents. But before we sprint headlong into the AI revolution, we need to have a proper dollars-and-cents conversation that most companies are avoiding. Disclaimer: Statistics cited in this post were…
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…
One of Kong Gateway’s superpowers is deck , our first-party declarative configuration tool. Tens of thousands of developers all around the world have embraced a text-driven, version-controlled configuration workflow for the world’s most used API Gateway . The deck CLI is an incredible tool, but it…