The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
See how easily Konnect Metering & Billing transforms API and AI traffic management into new revenue streams. We've talked about why 2026 is the year of AI unit economics . There, we explored the "2025 hangover" where organizations realized that without financial governance, AI isn't just a science…
As enterprises race to deploy multicloud architectures and Agentic AI, they face a common bottleneck: "state." To govern AI token usage, manage agent-to-agent communication, or optimize performance via caching, API and AI gateways require a persistence layer to synchronize data. We’re excited to…
A persistent challenge arises as businesses adopt multicloud architectures and agentic AI: the need for state synchronization. API and AI gateways require a robust persistence layer to synchronize data, whether it's for governing AI token usage, facilitating agent-to-agent communication, or…
As enterprises start deploying AI agents into real systems, a new architectural challenge is emerging. Agents need a reliable way to discover tools, services, and capabilities dynamically, instead of relying on hardcoded integrations. This is where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem is…
In the burgeoning intelligence economy, AI tokens are a metered utility, but enterprise profitability now hinges on a critical distinction: output tokens can cost up to 10x more than inputs, creating a new, invisible risk for cost overruns, particularly with Agentic AI. Learn how Kong AI Gateway…
The recent article on OpenAI overhauling its payment systems to reduce its dependency on Stripe highlights an important tension many digital platform builders face today: how to balance usage-based monetization with the realities of payments infrastructure dependency. At Kong, we see this as a…
Kong Operator 2.1 is a significant update for our customers, opening up integration into the Kong ecosystem for our Kubernetes customers. With Kong Ingress Controller, when your Control Plane was hosted in Kong Konnect, and you were using Kubernetes Gateway API, your dataplane, routes, and services…
In today's digital landscape, APIs are the backbone of modern applications, and AI is the engine of innovation. As organizations increasingly rely on microservices and AI-powered features, the API gateway has become the critical control point for managing traffic. But as LLM/GenAI and MCP requests…
APIs and integrations are the foundation of the modern enterprise. Every organization needs to securely connect systems, move data, and automate workflows, all while maintaining control, visibility, and flexibility. Increasingly, those same APIs are also being consumed by AI-powered applications…
In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven development, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the critical standard for connecting AI applications to the data and tools they need. We are excited to announce the Technical Preview (TP) of Kong MCP Registry , a major milestone in our…
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…
That’s a wrap on API Summit 2025 ! At our eighth annual event, the brightest minds in the worlds of APIs and AI gathered in New York City to define the next chapter of digital innovation. We're entering an era where APIs are not just connecting services but connecting intelligence. APIs are the…
The Kubernetes networking landscape is evolving, and recent announcements confirm a significant community shift. The Kubernetes community recently announced the upcoming retirement of one of its most widely used components: Ingress NGINX "To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem,…
The integration of next-generation AI workloads — from large language models (LLMs) to speech-to-text and text-to-speech — demands a powerful, secure, and scalable infrastructure. This is especially true for building advanced AI voice agents, which rely on seamless, natural, and highly efficient…
We’re thrilled to share that Kong Konnect, our unified API and AI platform, has been named a winner of Foundry Co.'s InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2025 in the API Management category. InfoWorld’s annual awards recognize the most innovative software development, DevOps, cloud, data…