The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
One of the most common questions we're asked by prospective customers is "what's the right way to get started with API monetization?" In this article, we'll do our best to lay out what we've seen work most frequently — and call out a few common pitfalls as well. What we can say with certainty…
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Finastra has ambitious goals - to open up the world of finance. As Joey White, SVP of technology for Finastra, says, "The future of finance is open. All of the currently closed systems within banking will need to open to serve a digital future." To him, open means understanding what you don't know,…
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Exceptional digital customer experience is vital to building a successful business. A recent report from Forrester Research shows customer-obsessed companies reporting 2.5x higher revenue growth and 2.2x better customer retention. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play a key role in…
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This is part of a 3-part series on APIs, sustainability, and climate change. Check out part 1 on managing a greener API lifecycle, and part 2 on ways to embed and innovate on top of third-party APIs to make greener products. In this final part, we will look at the environmental impact of common…
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TBC Bank is a technology-driven company in Georgia. We are happy to announce that we have chosen Kong to improve our API ecosystem and leverage its technological resources, expertise and international footprint to further simplify the daily lives of our users. TBC wanted to partner with a company…
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A microservice -based system can consist of dozens or even hundreds of individual services communicating with each other via APIs . While its possible for a client be that a web browser, application or IoT device to make requests to the relevant microservice directly, this approach has a number of…
[](/blog/learning-center/api-gateway-uses)An API Gateway is becoming an essential part of modern application architecture. It acts as a reverse proxy that routes API requests to appropriate backend services. Along with routing, API Gateways provide capabilities like security, monitoring, rate limiting, and more for your APIs. A major…
[](/blog/learning-center/api-gateway-policies)Microservices architectures offer a number of benefits over a traditional monolithic design . Constructing a system out of loosely coupled services enables teams to work independently and means the individual services can be deployed and scaled independently. As a result, the system is more…
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The API management space is changing - fast. In the past couple of years alone, we've seen huge changes in the deployment patterns that our customers are adopting. In the past, when the use cases were fairly simple, organizations would deploy an API gateway as a SaaS monolith in the cloud, sitting…
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I've just got off a call with one of the largest banks in Sweden, and my brain is racing with ideas. I need to get this down on paper. I want to drop everything I'm doing and spend the next week in that mental headspace where all you do is explore and live and…
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Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Kong Gateway 2.8 , which further simplifies API management and improves security for all services across any infrastructure. This announcement demonstrates Kong’s continued commitment to our customers and community by providing a next-generation…
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We live in an API-driven economy , where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are increasingly being used to open new revenue channels, accelerate time to market and democratize data. Enterprises are constantly striving to build faster, more reliable and easier to use APIs. They understand…
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From the modern application platform perspective, products should allow architects and DevOps teams to support dynamic topologies. That means a multi-platform capability is required but not sufficient. In fact, for several reasons, companies are looking for hybrid deployments to run their…
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) are fast becoming the global standard for automated data exchange between and within companies. When a company first launches APIs, an adjacent step is to set up an effective system for automating API planning and implementation. But beyond that, as…
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Here's a story about a developer surviving in a world of APIs, Kubernetes and rapid application modernization. Meet Josh (a pseudonym). Josh is your typical developer. He's good at writing code in his native language, hates documentation and REALLY hates the "drag and drop" approach to developing…
[](/blog/engineering/rapid-application-modernization)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.