The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
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…
The agentic era is here, and it's exposing a critical gap in enterprise infrastructure. AI agents are no longer experimental. As many as 9 out of 10 enterprise organizations are actively adopting AI agents. Agents are making autonomous decisions, orchestrating complex workflows, and interacting…
As APIs evolve into the strategic connective tissue of digital products and AI, organizations often fail to unlock their value due to a critical misalignment between business goals and technical execution. To transform APIs into genuine growth levers, enterprises must embrace full-lifecycle API…
We’re thrilled to share that Kong Konnect, our unified API and AI platform, has been named a winner of Foundry Co.'s InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2025 in the API Management category. InfoWorld’s annual awards recognize the most innovative software development, DevOps, cloud, data…
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…