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What is an API (Application Programming Interface)?

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 entities. Common services accessible via APIs include geolocation data, weather updates, financial information, and authentication services through platforms like Google or Facebook.

Kong Gateway 3.10: Advanced Kafka Support, Data Orchestration, & More

Today, we're pleased to announce Kong Gateway 3.10, our next Long-Term Support (LTS) version. This LTS version will be supported until March 2028, up to three years from the release date. Please check our documentation here for more details on Kong’s support policy. Highlights of this release include: To find out more, keep reading!

Kong Mesh 2.10: Simplified Provisioning and Policy Management

The latest version of Kong Mesh brings an improved provisioning experience and streamlined management of policies — plus user interface enhancements to elevate your experience deploying and managing Kong Mesh. Built on top of Kuma, Kong Mesh is a service mesh designed to provide security, observability, and traffic control across modern, distributed applications.

Efficient AI Management: Token Rate-Limiting & Tiering in Kong

Don't let runaway AI token usage drain your resources! In this practical demo, learn how Kong Inc.'s innovative AI Gateway and API Management platform can help your organization efficiently manage token consumption across multiple AI models. See firsthand how to: Implement user-specific rate limits based on token usage Optimize AI costs by easily configuring access tiers Ensure your AI solutions scale seamlessly while maintaining high performance.

Federated Configuration Management at Scale with decK

decK is a wonderful tool for managing Kong Gateway configuration declaratively, but before you know it you find yourself editing a 1000 line long YAML file that is is hard to manage. In this call, Michael will take you through the techniques used by some of Kong's biggest users to split their configuration files in to manageable chunks. There will be slides, there will be documentation, and as always, there will be demos.

Kong Insomnia 11: Elevating API Security and Collaboration

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 11! This release introduces third-party vault integrations for enhanced security, an all-new Git sync experience for more seamless collaboration, and support for multi-tabs to improve efficiency within the Insomnia application. Keep reading to learn more.

AI Gateway: Centralized Management for Secure, Localized AI Prompts

Unlock the full potential of your AI by optimizing prompt management. In this concise demo, discover how Kong AI Gateway provides a centralized, secure solution for prompt management, significantly enhancing AI consistency and security. Key features demonstrated: Prompt Jailbreak Prevention: Stop misuse and protect AI integrity. Centralized Policy Enforcement: Ensure consistency across distributed teams. Effortless Localization: Streamline prompt translations without additional development overhead. Take control of your prompts and optimize your AI interactions efficiently with Kong AI Gateway.

Safeguarding Enterprise AI with Kong's Prompt Guard

Protect your enterprise AI from misuse and safeguard sensitive data effortlessly. In this concise demo, you'll learn how Kong Inc. helps organizations enforce powerful security guardrails around AI interactions. Key highlights include: AI Prompt Guard: Set precise rules to allow or block specific prompts. AI Semantic Prompt Guard: Go beyond simple rules by using AI to understand and intelligently filter prompts based on their semantic meaning. Enhance your AI security strategy and confidently mitigate risks with Kong.

AI Observability: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Your LLM Infrastructure

When your company deployed its first large language model last quarter, your CTO probably didn't mention you'd need entirely new tools to understand what's happening under the hood. But here we are. AI Observability isn't just another tech buzzword—it's the difference between confidently leveraging AI and crossing your fingers hoping nothing breaks.

Introducing Active Tracing (Tech Preview)

We're thrilled to announce the tech preview of Active Tracing, a significant advancement in Kong Konnect. This innovative feature unlocks unparalleled visibility into API traffic as it flows through Kong Gateway, empowering you to optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, and refine your API strategies.

Insomnia 101: Introduction to API Design, Debugging, and Testing with Insomnia

Take control of your API development process with Insomnia's powerful testing toolkit. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn essential techniques to validate, debug, and improve your APIs. Whether you're building integrations or maintaining existing services, you'll gain practical skills to catch issues early and streamline your development workflow. In this workshop, we'll focus on foundational concepts and getting started with Insomnia. We'll show you how to.

The New Kong Konnect Dev Portal

APIs are the fuel of modern innovation, but they have to be discoverable and easily consumable to drive the maximum possible value. Without an easy-to-use, developer-friendly discovery layer, Developers are stuck searching across disparate repositories for APIs, or — even worse — wasting time and effort building redundant APIs. The market has already responded to this need with the API Developer Portal concept, where the portal acts as a central catalog for all APIs.

Kong Konnect Advanced Analytics: Running Faster Than StatsD

Earlier this year the Kong Konnect Analytics team was looking to leverage the stability and flexibility of our own Kong Gateway to handle the entire load of our Analytics ingest firehose. Almost all Konnect API traffic flows through a Kong Gateway and most of it has from the very beginning. For some legacy and differing protocol reasons, our Analytics ingest service was not included in our initial Kong Gateway configuration.