The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
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=""…
The world of financial services is driven by digital experiences. Over the last 20 years, virtually all banking activities have been taken online (an unfortunate change only for fans of pneumatic tubes and pens on beaded chains). Like other industries that have undergone digital transformation,…
Today, we're thrilled to announce that Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect Data Planes are now validated to run on AWS Graviton3 processors and Amazon Linux 2023 OS. As an APN Advanced Tier Partner of AWS, we were delighted to have the opportunity to benchmark Kong Enterprise running on AL2023 and…
API monetization is currently a trending topic for many organizations looking to beef up their revenue. Of course, monetizing APIs isn't the easiest of tasks and requires quite a few moving parts. When it comes to monetization, you're going to need an entire technology stack to handle the heavy…
Enterprises are investing in data mesh initiatives to accelerate how decisions are made and to create novel experiences based on machine learning models. Similarly, enterprises are investing in API platform initiatives to productize business domains (or bounded contexts in domain-driven design…
There are many different ways to deploy Kong Gateway. In this post, Viktor Gamov (Principal Developer Advocate at Kong) walks through the four most popular ways. Depending on your particular use case, you may find that one or more of these is a good fit. Let's get started! Using the DB-less and…
Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow software to communicate and share data. But how can those APIs confirm the identity of the clients theyre communicating with? API keys are one solution. API keys are unique codes for authenticating and authorizing access to the features, data, or…