The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Today, we're proud to announce the release of Kong Enterprise 2.2 GA! Kong Enterprise 2.2 is built on top of version 2.2 of our popular open source gateway and brings with it a slew of new features and some Enterprise-only features on top. Let's dive in! For a long time, Kong has supported not…
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Today, we're excited to announce a new research project we've been kicking around at Kong: Kong Embedded! If you've used the Kong Gateway before or heard us talk about it, one of the things we're very proud of is that Kong Gateway uses a very small resource footprint. It's a small download in size,…
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In 2018, Kong was first positioned onto the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API Management Market as a Visionary . This in itself was a very impressive feat given that Kong was started as an open source project just three years before that. I believe Kong's progress on the Magic Quadrant…
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Today, we are proud to announce the general availability (GA) of one of the most important releases of Kong Enterprise we've had to date — Kong Enterprise 2.1 is here! This release represents a fundamental shift in how customers can deploy, manage and scale Kong Enterprise across their…
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It's not every day that you learn your technology helped a company achieve their highest sales in company history. But that is the story of Kong and Papa John's. I have always loved Papa John's for their delicious pizza made with fresh ingredients, but what I also think of is their (incredibly…
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In support of our partnership with AWS, we're re-examining how some of our major customers today are using Kong with AWS. To this end, let's look at our popular case study with Cargill. For over 150 years, Cargill has been on a mission to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable…
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Kong Enterprise provides customers with the fastest, most scalable and flexible API management solution in the market. One of Kong's main advantages is the ability to quickly deploy and integrate with a customer's ecosystem of already-deployed solutions for identity management and monitoring. As…
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We are pleased to announce the next release of our flagship enterprise offering, Kong Enterprise 1.5! This follow-up release adds additional stability and features on top of our last major release, Kong Enterprise 1.3 , which we announced at Kong Summit 2019 . Kong Enterprise 1.5 key features…
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We are proud to announce the General Availability of the latest version of our flagship enterprise offering , Kong Enterprise 2020. At last year's Kong Summit, we announced our vision for the service control platform to serve as an intelligent information broker for the enterprise. Today, we're…
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With the 1.3 release , Kong is now able to natively manage and proxy gRPC services. In this blog post, we'll explain what gRPC is and how to manage your gRPC services with Kong. gRPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) framework initially developed by Google circa 2015 that has seen growing adoption…
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Today, we are excited to announce the release of Kong 1.3! Our engineering team and awesome community has contributed numerous features and improvements to this release. Based on the success of the 1.2 release, Kong 1.3 is the first version of Kong that natively supports gRPC proxying, upstream…
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Calling all technical writers! Kong is applying to participate in this year’s Season of Docs and would love to work alongside you. The goal is to foster collaboration between open source projects and technical writers. Season of Docs is a unique program that pairs technical writers with our open…
[](/blog/engineering/kong-community-season-of-docs)Anaheim, Amsterdam, Australia, oh my! The Kong team is packing our bags and hitting the road for AWS Global Summits around the world over the next few months. At each free event, the cloud computing community gathers to discuss AWS core topics and software trends. Visit our booth for riveting…
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Today, we have some exciting news! We’re announcing our $43 million Series C round, led by Index Ventures and our board member Mike Volpi, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (Martin Casado) and CRV (Devdutt Yellurkar), as well as new strategic investors GGV Capital and…
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Today, we're thrilled to announce the release of Kong 1.1 ! Building on the release of support for service mesh in Kong 1.0 last September, our engineering teams and community have been hard at work on this latest iteration of our open source offering. With new Declarative Config and DB-less…
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