The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Traditional APIs are, in a word, predictable. You know what you're getting: AI APIs, especially anything that runs on LLMs under the hood, are a completely different story. These things are highly unpredictable by their very nature. You're dealing with token-based costs that swing wildly depending…
Running Kong in front of your Solace Broker adds real benefits: Imagine an order service that accepts REST requests and publishes them as events. 1. API Consumer calls Kong with a standard POST request: 2. Kong Gateway applies authentication, validates the payload, adds a correlation ID, rate…
Managed Redis cache is a turnkey "Shared State" add-on for Kong Dedicated Cloud Gateways. It is designed to combine the performance of an in-memory data store with the simplicity of a SaaS product. When you spin up a Dedicated Cloud Gateway in Kong Konnect, you can now toggle on Managed Redis with…
Architecture Overview A multicloud DCGW architecture typically contains three main layers. 1\. Konnect Control Plane The SaaS control plane manages configuration, plugins, and policies. All gateways connect securely to this layer. 2\. Dedicated Cloud Gateway Data Planes Each cloud environment ho…
The Shifting Economic Landscape: The AI token economy in 2026 is evolving, and enterprise leaders must distinguish between low-cost input tokens and high-premium output tokens to maintain profitability. Agentic AI Financial Risks: The transition to agentic AI and multi-step reasoning models creates…
Imagine 47 million requests hitting your platform last month. Can you prove who made each one—and invoice with confidence? If that question tightens your stomach, you're not alone. Metered billing for APIs promises fair, transparent pricing that scales with customer success. But it only works when…
When teams resort to VPC peering or PrivateLink to expose Kafka, they're not solving the problem — they're managing it, one network topology decision at a time. Every new external consumer adds complexity: a new peering connection, new firewall rules, new IP space to coordinate, new potential for…
With Kong Ingress Controller, when your Control Plane was hosted in Kong Konnect, and you were using Kubernetes Gateway API, your dataplane, routes, and services were in read-only mode. When using Kong Ingress Controller with Kubernetes Gateway API, Kubernetes serves as the authoritative source of…
The example below shows how an AI agent can be built using Volcano SDK with minimal code, while still interacting with backend services in a controlled way. The agent is created by first configuring an LLM, then defining an MCP (Model Context Protocol) endpoint that represents a promotions service.…
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…