The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
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…
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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.…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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What a year we have had! Hypergrowth, a huge community, and lots of recognition. But what we are most proud of is how Kong's technology has impacted the world, thanks to our users. We can't thank these users and the community enough for making Kong the most adopted open source API gateway out…
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This year's Kong API Summit is no ordinary virtual conference. We are taking our attendees into the heart of San Francisco for an action-packed interactive event. This is not one you will want to save for later. [iframe src="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ClurVEX4oV0" frameborder="0"…
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Kong's much anticipated Summit is back. Focused on Developing the Connected World, Kong API Summit 2021 will give you the tools to build new ideas, create actionable best practices and get hands-on with guiding your organization through transformation, delivering exciting innovation and securing…
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Join Kong at this year's Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit. The much anticipated virtual event will feature thought leaders like Kong CTO and Co-Founder Marco Palladino . Gartner's Summit brings together application leaders from around the world to improve the way they…
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Save the date! Kong API Summit will be returning for its second year this coming October 2-3 at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. Focused on building the next era of software , Kong Summit 2019 will provide a fun and educational forum for discovering, learning and trying the technologies,…
[](/blog/news/kong-summit-2019-call-for-speakers)Big thanks to the 37 people who joined us on the first-ever Kong Community Call! The inspiring demo, interesting discussion and enthusiastic participation have me looking forward to the monthly calls moving forward! As an evangelist for Kong, it makes me really happy to see such great participation…
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