The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
At API Summit , Kong announced the upcoming beta release of a brand new gateway deployment method in Kong Konnect: Serverless Gateways. Designed for speed, simplicity of use, and affordability, it’s the quickest way to deploy a Kong Gateway. Today, we're pumped to announce that all Konnect Plus…
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Walk into any of the over 1,300 Michaels stores in the US or Canada, and you can’t help but be inspired. Since 1973, the arts and crafts specialty retailer has been sparking creativity for millions. But behind Michaels’ operations, there’s creativity on the technology front as well. In recent…
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In this blog post, we'll talk about how to implement API product tiering, a powerful way to customize access, control usage, and monetize APIs. This model can help you scale efficiently while maintaining a smooth user experience. Read on to learn more! We'll be talking about how to implement API…
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Before we dive in, we want to remind our readers that the Konnect engineering team actively uses Kong products like Kong Gateway, Kong Mesh, and Insomnia. In this post, we'll showcase the power of Kong Gateway and two plugins — the JQ and Request Transformer Advanced Plugins — to govern and…
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One of the superpowers of Kong Gateway that its users most appreciate is its declarative configuration management capabilities, facilitated by the decK command line tool. Declarative configuration enables you to manage your Kong Gateway configuration using GitOps practices, including federated…
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We know that a lot of you are all in on Kubernetes as your source of declarative configuration. You have CI/CD pipelines set up already to review and approve your Kubernetes manifests. Not only that, but you’re using everything the Kubernetes ecosystem has to offer when it comes to managing…
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It’s no secret that building global API infrastructure is a daunting task. In April, we announced the general availability of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways — a fully managed, multi-region API management solution that makes setting up global API infrastructure fast and easy. With Dedicated…
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Developers, particularly with smaller budgets and teams, who want to manage APIs and deploy API infrastructure for use cases such as proof of concepts, testing, and experimentation face prohibitive obstacles to getting started. The traditional setup of API gateways typically demands significant…
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Today with the release of Insomnia 10 , we are quite stoked to also announce a brand new offering in Insomnia, the AI Runner, a managed SaaS service that provides developers with the ability to accelerate and secure LLM traffic for their applications. This capability is the first of a new class of…
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APIs are the backbone of the modern enterprise. However, troubleshooting API errors and resolving issues quickly can be challenging given their role in application operational continuity and customer experience. Time-sensitive resolution demands monitoring and deep analytical insights into API…
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In this article, we'll talk about our experience implementing a design system at Kong. We'll go over the reasons why we decided we needed one in the first place, where we started, and how we got to where we are today. We'll also cover the technology we used and how it has transformed software…
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Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 3.2 is here, and it’s an incredible release. It contains features related to graph theory, features that mean you’ll never need a database again, and a whole host of quality-of-life fixes. If you’ve been using KIC for a long time, you might remember that it was…
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The JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard that allows information to be transferred securely between different parties. The token is digitally signed by using a private key (HMAC) or a public/private key (RSA) by building a JSON Web Signature (JWS). It guarantees that the JWT hasn’t been…
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The service mesh architecture pattern has become a de facto standard for microservices-based projects. In fact, from the mesh standpoint, not just microservices but all components of an application should be under its control, including databases, event processing services, etc. It's critical to…
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You can use the new comprehensive search bar in Kong Konnect to quickly retrieve the information you need across Konnect entities so you can focus on taking action. Operating through a platform search API , the new search bar’s query syntax offers advanced and precise search capabilities and is…
[](/blog/product-releases/konnect-revamped-search)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.