The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
In this Kong Konnect tutorial, you'll learn how to leverage the platform to manage your API ecosystem from a single easy-to-use interface. We’ll run through how to: [iframe loading="lazy" title="Kong Konnect: Get Started with Kong Gateway in 10 Minutes" width="1200" height="675" src=""…
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By now, when we hear the words "service mesh" we typically know what to expect: service discovery, load balancing, traffic management and routing, security, observability, and resilience. So, why Kong Mesh? What does Kong Mesh offer that would be more difficult to obtain with other solutions? Why…
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Real-time Data Analytics Platform from Zero to One At the beginning of 2021, a brand new data team was assembled to build a real-time data platform for Kong’s SaaS platform, Konnect. Our mission is to provide top-notch real-time API analytics features for Konnect customers. alt_text V1…
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Have you ever worked on app development projects before? If so, then chances are that you have come across the term “GraphQL.” However, what exactly does it entail? Is it utilized in server or client-side configuration? Furthermore, when would Integration of GraphQL be preferred over other…
[](/blog/learning-center/graphql)Kong Konnect is a powerful SaaS-based API lifecycle management platform that provides a fast path for people looking to get started with Kong API Gateway. For existing users of Kong’s open-source gateway, it offers a way to rapidly take advantage of a scalable, highly-available architecture while…
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Developers will remember times when they were trying to figure out why something they were working on wasn’t behaving as expected. Hours of frustration, too much (or perhaps never enough) caffeine consumed, and sotto voce curses uttered. And then — as if by fate — the issue is narrowed down to a…
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A critical and challenging requirement for many organizations is meeting audit and compliance obligations. The goal of compliance is to secure business processes, sensitive data, and monitor for unauthorized activities or breaches. AWS CloudTrail Lake now enables customers to record user…
[](/blog/engineering/aws-cloudtrail-lake-isv-launch-partner)Kong’s open-source API Gateway is a highly successful project with over 33k stars on GitHub and 293 contributors. Kong provides a powerful platform that can be extended using hundreds of plugins provided by Kong, ecosystem partners, and the community. Kong’s Enterprise subscription provides an…
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IBM recently announced the deprecation of its Cloud API Gateway, a service used to create and manage APIs by placing a gateway in front of existing IBM Cloud endpoints. With this move, IBM Cloud Functions and IBM Cloud Foundry are no longer able to use Cloud API Gateway service for rate limiting,…
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In today's cloud ecosystem the demands for high functioning and high performance observability, security and networking functionality for applications and their network traffic are as high as ever. Historically a great deal of this kind of functionality has been implemented in userspace, but the…
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As more companies are undergoing digital transformation (resulting in a huge explosion of APIs and microservices), it's of paramount importance to get all the necessary data points and feedback to provide the best experience for both users and developers. Kong Gateway is a lightweight API gateway…
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As engineers and architects, we automatically build resilience into platforms as far as possible. But what about the unknown failures? What about the unknown behavior of your platform? The philosopher, Socrates, once said "You don’t know what you don’t know". What if I could tell you there is a way…
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Jason Cumberland , CPO and co-founder of API and data monetization platform HyperCurrent , contributed to this post. In our last article on how to get started with API monetization , we laid out how to build your API monetization strategy and avoid common pitfalls that occur when trying to get to…
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In this Kongcast episode , Henrik Blixt, Product Manager for Argo at Intuit, gives an introduction to Argo, an open source tool for Kubernetes and incubating project of CNCF. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest…
[](/blog/engineering/argo-use-cases-for-gitops-ml)In this Kongcast episode , Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at VMware, dives into how Spring changed the way developers build Java applications and introduces you to Spring Native. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for…
[](/blog/engineering/how-spring-changed-java-application-development)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.