The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
The challenges of an acquisition frequently appear in a number of critical areas, especially when dealing with a platform as important as Kafka: Many organizations consider maintaining direct integration with their Kafka provider. However, compared to a direct coupling approach, an abstraction…
Apache Kafka is a distributed, fault-tolerant, high-throughput event-streaming platform. LinkedIn originally developed it to handle massive data pipelines. The Apache Software Foundation now maintains this open-source project. Kafka implements a distributed commit log at its core. Think of an…
The Gateway Evolution An unoptimized AI inference endpoint can burn through thousands of dollars in minutes. This isn't hyperbole. It's the new reality of artificial intelligence operations. When GPT-4 processes thousands of tokens per request, traditional infrastructure crumbles. The demands are…
Built for developers We’ve taken the best parts of Terraform, deck, the AWS CLI, and more of your favorite tools and combined them into something that’s really special. kongctl takes inspiration from the AWS CLI, with support for profiles. Profiles are configuration sets that allow you to easily sw…
Simplified controller configuration When using the Kong Ingress Controller, a significant amount of effort was needed to apply configuration to the controller by setting environment variables. The new ControlPlane resource greatly simplifies this and allows you to set configuration once at the…
Together, these three technologies enable healthcare organizations to connect systems with confidence, manage identities responsibly, and share data securely. Healthcare data is highly sensitive and strictly governed by regulations like HIPAA. The combination of Kong and Okta provides a robust,…
Why switch to Dedicated Cloud Gateways? Well, the drivers for moving to managed cloud gateways are simple enough, as they mirror all the reasons behind why you would want to move any workload to the cloud. By choosing a DCGW, you benefit from faster time to market, easier scalability, and reduced…
Kong customers include some of the most forward-thinking, tech-savvy organizations in the world. And while we’re proud to help them innovate through traditional APIs, the reality is that their ambitions don’t stop there. Increasingly, our customers are investing heavily in real-time data and event…
A RESTful API is a type of application programming interface that follows the guidelines of Representational State Transfer (REST). Its goal is to present data models and functions in a clear and standard format. RESTful APIs use common web technologies. This helps them work smoothly across…
When speaking with platform teams who are responsible for setting up their organizations’ API platforms, we often hear: "We really want to offload the infra side of this. We don’t want our engineers spinning up their own locally hosted infrastructure or asking other infrastructure teams to do this.…
AWS offers its own out-of-the-box API gateways. For many AWS teams, AWS API Gateways are a natural place to start when beginning their API management and API gateway journeys. However, as API practices and programs begin to scale, many organizations begin to look beyond AWS due to major…
The rise of AI and LLMs in our world is revolutionizing the applications we’re building and the customer experiences we’re delivering. This is one of the pivotal moments in our industry where we cross over an intersection in our technology evolution to enter a new journey with a paradigm shift.…
Today we're excited to announce Kong Gateway 3.9! Since unveiling Kong Gateway 3.8 at API Summit 2024 just a few months ago, we’ve been busy making important updates and improvements to Kong Gateway. This release introduces new functionality around LLM support for AI governance and security and…
At API Summit , Kong announced the upcoming beta release of a brand new gateway deployment method in Kong Konnect: Serverless Gateways. Designed for speed, simplicity of use, and affordability, it’s the quickest way to deploy a Kong Gateway. Today, we're pumped to announce that all Konnect Plus…
Developers, particularly with smaller budgets and teams, who want to manage APIs and deploy API infrastructure for use cases such as proof of concepts, testing, and experimentation face prohibitive obstacles to getting started. The traditional setup of API gateways typically demands significant…
It’s no secret that building global API infrastructure is a daunting task. In April, we announced the general availability of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways — a fully managed, multi-region API management solution that makes setting up global API infrastructure fast and easy. With Dedicated…
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.