The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
In 2019, my team at Kong introduced a new open source project called Kuma . Now a sandbox project of the CNCF , Kuma is a modern, universal control plane for service mesh based on Envoy . As we celebrate Kuma's achievements, I want to thank the Kuma community for your support and…
Event hooks are a brand new feature we launched with Kong Gateway 2.5 that allows you to get notifications when certain events happen on your Kong Gateway deployment. If you want to keep an eye out for when your system creates new administrators or adds new plugins to a latency-sensitive route,…
Today at Kong Summit , we are thrilled to announce several new products, features and capabilities across our entire service connectivity platform with the goal of making service connectivity as invisible and easily consumable as electricity. These updates include making the Kong Istio Gateway…
We are now deep into our most anticipated event of the year, Kong API Summit 2021 (there's still time to register for Day 2!). More than 4,000 people have registered from 87 countries for the virtual event. After a full day of knowledge and surprises, we are excited to recap the most memorable…
Many organizations have been able to accomplish impressive things using Kong products, including Kong Konnect, Kong Enterprise, Kong Gateway, Kuma and Insomnia. We recently honored four of these enterprises in the inaugural Cloud Connectivity Innovator Awards program during Kong Summit 2021.…
Since I started at Kong, we've always been a heavily international company. This has been a unique and fulfilling experience as we come in with a variety of backgrounds. However, it comes with some challenges. Most notably, the time differences as we're now fully remote and spread over the world.…
Each year at Kong Summit , we shine a light on projects and people ahead of the pack in their use of Kong. And what better way to do that than with a shiny gorilla statue. We call them the API Innovator Awards . The API Innovator Awards recognize outstanding and future-facing projects from…
Join the builders and leaders taming the API jungle live and in person at Kong Summit 2022 September 28-29, 2022, at the historic Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. Registration is now open . Kong Summit 2022 will feature more than 70 speakers across over 40 sessions, with insights from…
Kong Gateway is built on Nginx/OpenResty because it has a unique master/worker architecture, forks out many worker processes, and can utilize every CPU core efficiently. It is the powerhouse within Kong. But one master / multi workers architecture has an annoying defect. Each worker is an isolated…
There are lots of engineering blogs that showcase product features like a tourist destination described in a travel agency brochure, but not enough stories about how the feature came to be, from starting point to the destination, like a travelogue. Today I’m recounting the story of how I added…
Kong API Summit has come and gone! Whether you joined us in San Francisco or missed this year's big shindig, here are some of the highlights from the event and a round-up of all the Kong news dropped over the past two days. Kong Summit 2022 was back in-person after two years of digital-only…
Calling all innovators, software development wizards, and game-changers! Are you pushing the boundaries of digital transformation with APIs, microservices, service mesh, and beyond? Then we want to celebrate your story and achievements. The team here at Kong is thrilled to roll out the red carpet…
We’re excited to announce the 3rd Annual Kong Hackathon in conjunction with API Summit 2023 ! This year, the Hackathon will focus on API innovation using Artificial Intelligence. AI is revolutionizing the world, and we want to create an opportunity for the Kong community to experiment with AI…
API Summit 2023 is a wrap! Over the two-day conference (our sixth-annual event), we packed in over 40 hours of content in 100 sessions touching on everything from ensuring reliable connectivity to generative AI. We heard from investors about the future of APIs, as well as stories from users and…
In October, we hosted a total of 11 Meetups all around the globe — an absolute record for us! Kong handles 400 billion API calls a day. That's a lot of API calls. And that means there are a lot of you around the world using Kong. From San Francisco to Dubai, Kong has…