The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
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…
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…
The Kong team will be in Santa Clara next week for AWS Summit Santa Clara . Kong is a proud sponsor of this free event that brings together a wide range of attendees across company size, industry and scope, and we hope to see you there! To schedule a one-on-one meeting with a member…
Kong is very easy to get up and running: start an instance, configure a service, configure a route pointing to the service, and off it goes routing requests, applying any plugins you enable along the way. But Kong can do a lot more than connecting clients to services via routes. In this talk from…
Jason Walker shares how Cargill is using Kong to transform legacy architecture with a “Cloud first, but not always” approach. Hear why Cargill chose Kong for their API gateway as part of their internal API platform, Capricorn, allowing Jason's small team to stay nimble while they administer…
Today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong 1.0 – a scalable, fast, open source Microservice API Gateway built to manage, secure and connect hybrid and cloud-native architectures. Kong runs in front of any service and is extended through plugins including authentication,…
Want to take your API to the next level? Then you should give your API an OpenAPI spec! An OpenAPI spec is more than just documentation — with it, you can leverage your API to generate client code, do automated testing and more! During Kong Summit, Wordnik Founder Erin McKean gave an overview of…