The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Have you ever asked an AI assistant to generate code for a framework it doesn't quite understand? Maybe it produces something that looks right, but the syntax is slightly off, or it uses deprecated patterns. The AI is working hard, but it lacks the specific context it needs to truly help you. The…
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If you’ve been following Kong, you know that Kong was the first in the API platform space to introduce an enterprise-grade AI Gateway for LLM workloads. Today, we’ve also introduced a new enterprise-grade MCP Gateway to ensure that you can roll out production-ready MCP deployments. But we are…
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In March, we announced the public beta version of our reimagined Dev Portal. We set out to fully address the needs of the modern API consumer as well as the needs of the modern enterprise in promoting API adoption and reuse throughout the organization. We are excited to announce that the GA version…
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We just GA’d the new Kong Konnect Developer Portal as part of our broader API discovery initiative , and it represents a fundamental rethink of what a developer portal should be. Built from the ground up on a modern tech stack, it delivers both the simplicity teams need to get started fast and the…
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APIs are the lifeblood of disruption . . . when leveraged correctly. The best, most disruptive businesses are able to harness API growth as a strategic opportunity. But how? With an API platform that drives innovation, faster delivery, and top-tier customer experiences alongside a top-notch…
[](/blog/product-releases/new-enhancements-to-konnect)APIs are the fuel of modern innovation, but they have to be discoverable and easily consumable to drive the maximum possible value. Without an easy-to-use, developer-friendly discovery layer, Developers are stuck searching across disparate repositories for APIs, or — even worse — wasting time and…
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For the last 10+ years, Docker has been one of the leading technology tools for helping developers build, run, update, and manage containers. It is one of the most widely used containerization tools available, able to work with Linux, Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, and all of the leading cloud…
[](/blog/engineering/top-docker-desktop-extensions-for-developers)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…
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The Kong Konnect team recently launched the Portal Management API , which allows users to manage their Developer Portals with one API. That means you can easily manage your portal settings, appearance, application registrations, and registration settings easier than before. In this blog, I’ll walk…
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Wondering what’s new in Kong Konnect ? In this roundup, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities and expansions in Kong Konnect, including portal role-based access control (RBAC) API, OAS validation plugin, and support for Kong Gateway 3.2. Read on to learn more. You can now use Portal RBAC API…
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In the Dev Portal world, offering users the ability to use their own domain is a milestone on our way to fully customized Dev Portals. Since Konnect-hosted portals are fronted by a Kong gateway, we looked to use our own plugins to achieve this feature. The ACME plugin is an open-source Kong plugin…
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Multiple teams at Kong have been improving accessibility (also referred to as a11y) across our products. Over the past few months, our Dev Portal team has been working on accessibility improvements prompted by the needs of our customers. For example, financial services and government institutions…
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In February 2021, we announced the GA of Kong Konnect , the first cloud native service connectivity platform that gives organizations the flexibility of protecting their API and service traffic while simultaneously taking advantage of 10x ops improvements via the cloud control plane. Since our Kong…
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A developer portal is a storefront to your APIs (the products) that internal and external developers are trying to consume. The Kong Developer Portal provides a single source of truth for all developers to locate, access and consume services. With intuitive content management for documentation,…
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Two of the best (in my opinion) features in Konnect are the ServiceHub and Dev Portal. However, they're also two of the most misunderstood. Aren't they the same thing? Why would you need a ServiceHub vs. Dev Portal? Well, I'm glad you asked! The really quick version is that ServiceHub is like your…
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Kong Dev Portal comes out of the box with a RESTful API -based catalog and YAML-based template functionality. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to get to the next level of API documentation using Kong Dev Portal with GraphQL. That way, you'll be able to give your API developers an interactive…
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