The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Efficiently managing your developer portal is critical in productizing your APIs quickly and reliably. A streamlined developer portal ensures that your APIs are easily accessible, well-documented, and secure — driving higher adoption and easier integration. With the increasing demand for APIs…
The pace of the industry today is pressuring software developers to build, test, and release software more frequently than ever. To achieve this pace, teams have built two core processes into their workflow: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. Continuous Integration and Continuous…
Manufacturing has been one of the most prominent industries worldwide since the Industrial Revolution. Since then, from producing textiles to computer chips, manufacturers have always looked for ways to innovate. In the age of AI and APIs (or application programming interfaces), tech companies are…
From smart homes to wearable devices to connected cars, the Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing about a new era of hyper-connectivity. Experts expect investments in the IoT ecosystem to rise above $1 trillion in 2026 — with no signs of slowing down. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are…
Multimodal AI is a critical player in the new wave of artificial intelligence. By combining different types of data like text, images, and audio, multimodal AI creates more intuitive and versatile AI systems that can more closely mimic human decision-making. Whether it’s for a virtual healthcare…
APIs are essential to modern applications, but managing access and security policies can be complex. Traditional access control mechanisms can fall short when flexible, scalable, and fine-grained control over who can access specific resources is needed. This is where OPA (Open Policy Agent) steps…
The proper management of APIs is vital for organizations seeking to optimize their digital experiences and application performance. API management solutions facilitate the efficient administration of APIs by offering several features such as access control, rate limiting, developer portals,…
No AI without APIs — as we say here at Kong. I’m excited to officially share our oversubscribed Kong Series E financing at a $2 billion valuation! We raised $175 million in both primary and secondary, led again by Tiger Global and co-led by new investor Balderton as well as new strong participation…
Kong Konnect is Kong’s infrastructural SaaS solution. We run the control planes and API management applications for the data planes (API gateway and mesh) that are run by our customers to power their APIs. Some of the most critical traffic in the world goes through these data planes. The…
As the need for speed in business can seemingly be at odds with the need for control, organizations developing APIs today face a critical challenge: how can you empower developers to build and deploy APIs quickly while maintaining enterprise-wide governance and security? More traditional API…
APIs, or application programming interfaces, are sets of functions and procedures that serve as bridges between applications, dictating how services interact within an ecosystem. They specify accepted requests and their formats, enabling seamless data and functionality exchange between software…
Kong is ranked number 1 on the G2 Momentum Grids for API Management and API Development for Spring 2025. And users seem to agree with the glowing assessment: Kong is currently the highest-rated tool based on user satisfaction in the categories of API Management and API Development on G2. We think…
Ever feel like you're fighting an uphill battle with your API strategy? You're building APIs faster than ever, but somehow everything feels harder. Wasn’t API-first supposed to make all this easier? Well, you're not alone. And now industry analysts are noting it as well. New Gartner research on…