The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Every few months, a frontier AI lab makes a move that says the quiet part out loud: agents are only as useful as the systems they can reach. The latest example is Anthropic's acquisition of Stainless, the company behind the tooling that turns API specs into SDKs and MCP servers. Anthropic's own…
GitHub just sent waves of budget panic across its developer base. Seat-based Copilot pricing is out. Consumption-based credits are in. And if you're building an AI-driven product today on flat-rate pricing? You're building a problem into your roadmap. GitHub just announced Copilot plans will shift…
Three-quarters of enterprises are now piloting or deploying AI agents. But here’s the problem: actually integrating those agents with enterprise applications is proving to be one of the hardest parts of the whole endeavor. That’s the core finding of a recent Gartner research note, How to Integrate…
At TDX earlier this month, Salesforce announced Headless 360: every capability in the platform now exposed as an API, MCP tool, or CLI command. Co-founder Parker Harris put the thesis bluntly last month: "Why should you ever log into Salesforce again?" That isn't a marketing question. It's an…
An enterprise API strategy is no longer an optional IT exercise but a mandate for modern business survival. In the digital economy, your organization's internal connectivity, or lack thereof, determines your speed, agility, and capacity for innovation. This cookbook provides the eight essential…
Starting with Kong CE 0.13 and the upcoming EE 0.32, it is possible to separate control and data planes in a Kong cluster. So what are those planes? The control plane is how we instrument the system (pushing configs, fetching logs), whereas the data plane is the traffic that is actually being…
Jason Walker shares how Cargill is using Kong to transform legacy architecture with a “Cloud first, but not always” approach. Hear why Cargill chose Kong for their API gateway as part of their internal API platform, Capricorn, allowing Jason's small team to stay nimble while they administer…
As we grow our footprint globally, we're gaining strong momentum in the UK. We recently added several fast-growing, London-based organizations to the Kong Enterprise community. These organizations are turning to Kong to help power their core business applications and accelerate application…
In 2020, the acceleration of digital transformation quickly emerged as a top priority for many organizations as they grappled with the business impacts of an unexpected pandemic and raced to adapt to a new reality. As businesses begin to pivot out of the shadows of COVID-19 in 2021, what will this…
We're in the middle of the golden age of innovation that's creating absolutely astounding achievements. Within 10 years, Elon will land people on Mars , Germany won't have any gasoline cars on the road , and you'll be able to use more of your senses in virtual reality . This blade cuts both ways…
While organizations work to innovate with new services and offerings, silos can lead to inefficient pockets, restricting the ability to take incubation projects to market. This can limit the speed and efficiency to scale the new offering. So how does your organization offer a scalable platform to…
Multi-cloud infrastructure is changing the way companies approach their software architecture. What started solely as gateway traffic management has evolved into full lifecycle API management . I recently sat down with Reza Shafii, Kong's VP of product, for a blog series where we explore how full…
This blog post is part two of a two-part series on how we broke down our monolith to scale our API management with Kong Gateway, the world's most popular open-source API gateway . ( Here's part one .) At NexJ , the pioneer of intelligent customer management with client engagement products designed…
Last week, the digital world experienced a power outage . A major distributed edge computing platform experienced a software bug that led to the collapse of their Domain Name System (DNS), or the Internet's way to map domain names (i.e. united.com) to IP addresses. The consequences were costly. So…
The best way to appreciate key concepts involving digital transformation is to look at real-world examples. In a recent Kong webinar , I sat down with Solutions Engineer Ahmed Koshok as he reviewed several real-world case studies that help illuminate the role of microservices in making digital…
For most of my software engineering career, my experience with DevOps was all about configuration management. But after many years of experience with some key mentors, I began to see DevOps as so much more. In this article, I'll summarize my DevOps evolution from a high level. If you'd like to go…