The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
You would never expose a REST API without an API gateway in front of it. Authentication, rate limiting, observability, access control — these aren't optional extras. They're mandatory, and we've spent the last decade building the API gateway pattern to solve exactly this problem. So here's the…
We're thrilled to announce a strategic technology partnership between Kong and ModelOp . As enterprises rapidly transition into the agentic era, they face a critical challenge: how to deploy AI fast enough to stay competitive without taking on unacceptable regulatory or security risks. Together,…
We have big news for platform and AI infra teams: Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is available today in private beta . It runs on its own dedicated runtime, ships on its own release cadence, and carries a completely reimagined user experience designed around the way teams actually build with AI: models, MCP…
Vendor lock-in is one of the most underestimated risks in enterprise technology. It starts with convenience and ends with dependency. And as organizations accelerate AI adoption, the problem is getting worse. What used to be a cloud infrastructure concern now extends to LLM providers, agentic…
A new version of KAi, the Kong Konnect agentic platform assistant, is live. This is the release that turns KAi from a knowledgeable guide into something that can actually build inside your org — of course, within guardrails that you control. Until now, KAi could tell you how to set up a service,…
Legacy API management platforms were built for a different era. They weren't designed for microservices, multi-cloud deployments, or AI workloads. They're expensive, rigid, and hold engineering teams back. The problem is that migration has always felt hard. APIs are load-bearing infrastructure.…
Enterprises today manage thousands of APIs — and that number is growing fast. But APIs are no longer the only traffic flowing through your infrastructure. AI is adding entirely new categories of traffic: LLM calls to large language models, MCP requests that let AI agents access tools and data…
Most engineering teams adopt Apache Kafka for one simple reason: it works. It scales effortlessly, it is incredibly reliable, and it powers real-time systems across almost every industry. But as your Kafka usage expands across different teams, regions, and external consumers, success creates a…
As enterprises race to deploy multicloud architectures and Agentic AI, they face a common bottleneck: "state." To govern AI token usage, manage agent-to-agent communication, or optimize performance via caching, API and AI gateways require a persistence layer to synchronize data. We’re excited to…
TL:DR 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…
Modern enterprise platforms rarely exist as clean, well-factored systems. They evolve over years or sometimes decades, through acquisitions, reorgs, rewrites, and urgent business priorities. What you’re left with is not a single, unified architecture. It's layer upon layer of architectural…
The promise of agentic AI is clear: autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and act on your behalf. But there's a fundamental problem standing between that vision and enterprise reality: agents need context to make decisions, and that context lives scattered across your organization. Context is…
Kong is excited to announce Solace as the newest member of our Premium Technology Partner Program, a program designed to deliver high-quality, reliable integrations that provide real business value for customers. Together, Kong and Solace unify API-driven and real-time data movement into a single,…
APIs and integrations are the foundation of the modern enterprise. Every organization needs to securely connect systems, move data, and automate workflows, all while maintaining control, visibility, and flexibility. Increasingly, those same APIs are also being consumed by AI-powered applications…
An enterprise API strategy is no longer an optional IT exercise but a mandate for modern business survival. In the digital economy, your organization's internal connectivity, or lack thereof, determines your speed, agility, and capacity for innovation. This cookbook provides the eight essential…
In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven development, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the critical standard for connecting AI applications to the data and tools they need. We are excited to announce the Technical Preview (TP) of Kong MCP Registry , a major milestone in our…