The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
In the rapidly evolving world of API management, the conversation around "the great unbundling of API management" has recently gained traction. This movement, highlighted by industry experts and analysts, including a recent Forbes article , reflects a shift towards a more componentized approach in…
We want our engineering teams to move fast and be agile, yet many organizations confuse ownership of the infrastructure with ownership of the policies. The latter is what engineering teams want to rapidly iterate and develop their APIs. The former is the responsibility of the platform team. In this…
As API adoption continues, early autonomy incentives often have led to shadow IT and infrastructure sprawl. To secure our growing API attack surface, technology leaders must implement organizational accountability through security oversight, platform observability, and role clarity. Establishing…
The first release of Kong Mesh for 2024 (version 2.6) brings many new features that ease day 0 for new starters of service mesh reinforcing our goal of making a simple yet powerful product! In this blog, we'll break down these new features and provide tailored use cases to illustrate how Kong Mesh…
As 2023 gets played off and 2024 eagerly awaits its turn in the spotlight, let’s look back at the past 365-ish days in the land of Kong. It’s the year's final post, and we’re playing nothing but the hits! Read on for a recap of the biggest Kong news from 2023. Kong Inc. surpassed…
We're pleased to announce the launch of Standard Webhooks! Kong has been part of the Technical Committee of this standard with other great companies like Svix (the initiator of the project), Ngrok, Zapier, Twillio, Lob, Mux, and Supabase. This was a year-long effort of gathering feedback, use…
The latest release of Kong Mesh (version 2.5) brings many new features that push the envelope and make Kong Mesh the logical choice of a service mesh to meet your objectives. In this blog, we'll break down these new features and provide tailored use cases to illustrate how Kong Mesh 2.5 can elevate…
APIs have become a crucial part of modern software architecture, allowing different applications and services to communicate with each other. As organizations adopt microservices and distribute their systems, they require a cohesive API platform to manage these complex environments. In this blog…
We’re excited to announce Kong's unified API lifecycle management platform. Kong Konnect, our cloud API platform, can now manage services from API gateway, Ingress, and service mesh with a hosted control plane that can be implemented across any cloud provider, Kubernetes distribution, or…
The growth of APIs continues to drive our digital economy, and API management underpins the success of every modern application and the businesses that depend on their success. Today, we are very excited to announce the release of an essential guide to building and managing next-generation API…
This post is part of a series on becoming a secure API-first company. For a deeper dive, check out the eBook Leading Digital Transformation: Best Practices for Becoming a Secure API-First Company . The growth of APIs isn't just rapid — it's a seismic shift. Industry insiders say they plan to…
Modern organizations rely on APIs to power their digital customer experiences. This can lead to stronger brand loyalty and higher revenues — if they play their cards right. The driving factor in delivering personalized content is connectivity to more applications, systems, and data sources. That…
APIs have revolutionized every industry. They fuel digital transformation and power the web, making up more than 83% of global internet traffic. And API adoption will only grow, with AI, Web3 , and decentralization only further driving API usage and integration. But these sometimes-overlooked…
We are thrilled to announce that we have reached a significant milestone in our journey to provide the best possible developer experience to our Kong user community. We have added a host of new functionality to decK , our declarative management tool for Kong Gateway . These new functions enhance…
In this Kong Konnect tutorial, you'll learn how to leverage the platform to manage your API ecosystem from a single easy-to-use interface. We’ll run through how to: [iframe loading="lazy" title="Kong Konnect: Get Started with Kong Gateway in 10 Minutes" width="1200" height="675" src=""…
Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.