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# Learning Center

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# Open Banking: The Guide on APIs, Regulations, and the Future of Finance

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterApril 7, 2026

The global financial services industry is undergoing a massive, API-driven revolution. With the global open banking market valued at $31.61 billion in 2024 and projected to grow to $135.17 billion by 2030, this shift is accelerating worldwide. This definitive guide explores the core APIs, the…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/guide-on-open-banking)

# AI Observability: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Your LLM Infrastructure

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterFebruary 27, 2026

Your traditional monitoring dashboards may show perfect infrastructure health, but that doesn't guarantee your large language model (LLM) application is running correctly. AI observability is the crucial fourth pillar that adds behavioral telemetry to detect and troubleshoot unique issues like…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/guide-to-ai-observability)

# Exploring API Endpoints in Depth

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterJanuary 2, 2026

API endpoints process requests that power our digital world—from social feeds updating in real-time to enterprise systems syncing global inventories across continents. APIs comprise over 57% of Internet traffic, yet API endpoints often remain misunderstood. This leads to design inconsistencies,…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/guide-to-api-endpoints)

# What is AI Governance? 2026 Framework Guide

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterJanuary 2, 2026

While AI is revolutionizing the future of nearly every industry, it’s also created a unique set of challenges and liabilities that will need to be addressed as the area grows. Enter AI governance: a set of rules and best practices to ensure that AI is used effectively, securely, and responsibly.…

Kong
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# What is MCP? Diving Deep into the Future of Remote AI Context

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMay 13, 2025

The hype for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached a boiling point. Everyone ( including Kong ) is releasing something around MCP to ensure they aren't seen as falling behind in the ever-changing AI landscape. The hype for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has reached a…

Michael Field
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/what-is-mcp)

# RBAC Explained: The Basics of Role-Based Access Control

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterApril 14, 2025

As cybersecurity takes the main stage, organizations face a significant challenge: how do you strike a balance between maintaining a high level of security and ensuring employees have enough data access to perform their jobs properly? Role-based access control (RBAC) is a solution that can support…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/what-is-rbac)

# What Is RAG? Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation in AI

WHAT IS RAG
[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterApril 14, 2025

When was the last time your AI assistant confused a memo from the CEO with 'Game of Thrones' plot lines? Have you ever asked a chatbot a question, only to receive an answer that was not only wrong but hilariously outdated? Imagine asking about the latest iPhone model and getting a response…

[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/what-is-rag-retrieval-augmented-generation)

# What is Docs as Code?

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterApril 14, 2025

If you take a step back and think about today’s software development landscape, you could argue that documentation is just as important as the code itself. That’s because traditional documentation workflows — where documentation is manually updated, stored separately from code, and thus often falls…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/what-is-docs-as-code)

# Comprehensive Guide for Understanding REST APIs

Rest API Guide
[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterApril 7, 2025

A RESTful API is a type of application programming interface that follows the guidelines of Representational State Transfer (REST). Its goal is to present data models and functions in a clear and standard format. RESTful APIs use common web technologies. This helps them work smoothly across…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/what-is-restful-api)

# What is an API?

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 31, 2025

APIs, or application programming interfaces, are sets of functions and procedures that serve as bridges between applications, dictating how services interact within an ecosystem. They specify accepted requests and their formats, enabling seamless data and functionality exchange between software…

Eric Pulsifer
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/what-is-api)

# What is Agentic AI? The Next Big Leap in Artificial Intelligence

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterDecember 10, 2024

You’ve probably heard of generative AI, which uses deep learning models to simulate human decision-making by processing large amounts of data, and then responding with pertinent new content. Since the arrival of ChatGPT in 2022, generative AI has come a long way — but now there’s another technology…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/agentic-ai)

# The Ultimate CORS Crash Course

Guide to CORS basics
[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterDecember 9, 2024

In today's interconnected web ecosystem, modern applications frequently need to communicate across different domains, making Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) a fundamental concept for web developers to master. This comprehensive guide explores CORS from its basic principles to advanced…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/what-is-cors-cross-origin-resource-sharing)

# What is a Service Mesh?

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterJuly 24, 2024

A service mesh is a mechanism for managing communications between the various individual services that make up modern applications in a microservice-based system. When a service mesh is applied, all inter-service communication is routed through proxies, which can be used to implement networking…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/what-is-a-service-mesh)

# What is gRPC?

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[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterApril 26, 2024

Most APIs today are accessed over the ubiquitous HTTP protocol and the framework to create these APIs is known as REpresentational State Transfer (REST). These APIs are known as RESTful APIs . However, if you've been working in API development over the last several years, then you have likely heard…

Kong
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/what-is-grpc)

# Kubernetes Operators vs HELM: Package Management Comparison

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 27, 2024

While Kubernetes has become the standard platform for container orchestration, managing complex application lifecycles can still be a challenge. That's where Kubernetes Operators and Helm Charts come in. This guide dives into both of these tools to explain what they do, how they're different, and…

Peter Barnard
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/kubernetes-operators-vs-helm)

# What's the Difference: Kubernetes Controllers vs Operators?

[Learning Center](/blog)Learning CenterMarch 21, 2024

Kubernetes, or K8s, is one of the most powerful open source container orchestration systems — especially for its automatic implementation of a desired state. In other words, as an admin, you get to specify how you want your application and cluster to behave, and the control plane executes it for…

Peter Barnard
[](/en-gb/blog/learning-center/kubernetes-controllers-vs-operators)
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