Video
Powering Modern Developer Platforms with Konnect
In this keynote, Reza Shafii, SVP of Product of Kong, presents how an API Management platform empowers developers.
Kong transforms your developer platform
Take your developer platform to the next level with a unified solution for API innovation and collaboration.
Set up your developer organization for lasting success
Kong provides the most productive way to build, run, and govern a developer platform at scale.
Break down API silos and promote consistent documentation across teams with a centralized developer portal and top-down governance rules. Remain proactive with real-time platform analytics and automate the full API lifecycle with DevOps and GitOps principles.
Learn how Rabobank implemented a fully automated, self-service API management model with Kong to improve its deployment velocity by 10X.
The building blocks of a developer platform
Spec-first API approach
Organizational alignment to a spec-first API approach is foundational for creating a scalable developer platform. Kong Insomnia helps developers produce high-quality API specs to drive API consumption.
Automation at every step
Ensure both speed and quality when innovating with APIs. Adhere to compliance requirements while accelerating release velocity with Kong’s robust CI/CD integrations and APIOps.
Autonomy with guardrails
Interacting with APIs is frictionless with Kong. Konnect enables API innovators to operate with a high degree of autonomy while working within the limits of the organization’s pre-defined guardrails.
Real-time analytics
Maintain the integrity of your developer platform with end-to-end visibility and federated governance. Track usage patterns and gain real-time insights to ensure your API infrastructure is secure and performing optimally.
Build a modern developer platform with Kong
Accelerate API development workflows
Kong Insomnia provides an intuitive solution for accelerating API development workflows. Design, debug, test, mock, and lint your APIs with the most popular protocols (GraphQL, gRPC, REST, SSE, SOAP, and WebSockets).
Create your OpenAPI specs directly within Kong Insomnia, and sync your work to a Git repository to collaborate with teammates. Finally, export your API specs in the Kong declarative format, and as a manifest for Kong in Kubernetes.
Learn how CMA CGM followed APIOps principles with Kong to reduce the time to design, build, and deploy an API from 3 months to 48 hours.
Publish, locate, and consume APIs with ease
Kong provides a customizable developer portal and a broader developer platform for distributed teams and architectures. Publish your APIs to the Kong Konnect developer portal to enhance API discovery and consumption.
Internal and external users can be granted the ability to register their applications, access API documentation, and autonomously connect to APIs, all within the boundaries of predefined governance policies.
Learn how Brittany Ferries uses the Kong Konect developer portal to accelerate developer onboarding and unlock new revenue streams with its external customers.
Unlock federated governance at scale
The Kong Konnect platform enables API consumers and developers to self-serve API creation and reuse. With central oversight, API platform owners can define the overarching guardrails for the organization. Each team can then operate autonomously within their individual domains. Automatically enforce fine-grained security policies as part of the API deployment process to improve platform robustness.
League is a leader in healthcare CX. Learn how they are using Kong to unlock team autonomy across all shared concerns.
Stay up-to-date with comprehensive logging and auditing
Gain a deeper understanding of operational and business metrics with Kong’s API Analytics, logging, and monitoring. Leverage end-to-end visibility to maintain the integrity of the federated governance model and ensure that any deviations from the established guardrails are quickly remediated. Easily integrate the Kong API Analytics stack with existing popular analytics providers such as Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk, and more.
Learn how GCash, the leading mobile wallet and fintech platform in the Asia-Pacific, established a centralized hub for monitoring and governing APIs, ensuring proper data ingestion and adherence to predefined guidelines.
Unleash the possibilities of GenAI
The Kong AI Gateway helps organizations to build and adopt GenAI faster. Users can efficiently consume various large language models (LLMs) and leverage semantic plugins to intelligently secure, govern, and monitor AI traffic at scale.
Developers can also leverage the AI Runner to accelerate GenAI development directly within Kong Insomnia. Powered by the Kong AI Gateway, the AI Runner simplifies the process of integrating with LLMs while also providing semantic caching and key security guardrails out-of-the-box.
Customer stories
“With the flexibility that Kong's development portal provides us, we can discover new APIs and services in a matter of minutes. We've been able to reduce our overall service discovery time by 90%."
Heidson Lima
Digital IT Manager
90%
Reduced service discovery time
"With this standardized approach to APIs using Kong, each team remains flexible and has no dependency, which is key in an agile environment."
Thomas Joham
Delivery Manager
"Automatic generation of API contracts with Kong improves the quality of API specs and reduces the risk of breaking changes for our end users."
Hans van Leeuwen
Lead architect
"With Kong's Developer Portal, we are aggregating the API experience so developers understand what is out there and being used.”
Nick Travis
Site Ops Tech Lead
Gartner® names Kong a Leader for the 5th Year in a Row
Kong named a Magic Quadrant™ leader for API Management, plus positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.
Related resources
Case Study
How Aviva Built a Brilliant Customer Experience
Learn how Aviva used Kong to create reusable pipelines and templates to empower self-service API development across teams.
Report
The API-First Operating Model
Learn how to deliver world-class digital experiences through a modern API-native infrastructure.
Questions about creating a developer platform?
Contact us today and tell us more about your configuration and we can offer details about features, support, plans, and consulting.