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Dev Portal & AI Coding Agents

The AI coding era isn’t coming, it’s already here. Today’s AI agents aren’t just helping developers code faster; they’re starting to drive entire development workflows. In this quick video, see how Kong’s Developer Portal makes it easy for both humans and AI agents to securely discover, consume, and collaborate on APIs across your organization. From accelerating planning to boosting developer productivity, Kong gives you a smarter way to manage APIs at enterprise scale.

Automate safer API delivery with Kong Gateway and decK

Moving faster shouldn’t mean giving up control. In this quick demo, see how to go from an OpenAPI spec to a fully configured service in Kong Gateway—with built-in plugins, tagging, backups, and diff checks for safer, repeatable API deployment. Learn how your platform team can use decK to: Promote configurations from non-production to production with confidence If you're looking to streamline API operations without sacrificing governance or security, this walkthrough is a must-watch.

Secure your MCP servers with Kong AI Gateway

Managing AI infrastructure isn’t enough—you need to protect it. In this demo, learn how to secure, observe, and govern your MCP servers using Kong AI Gateway. If you’re integrating MCP into your stack, Kong’s AI Gateway acts as the trust layer—keeping your costs down, your innovation moving, and your risks in check. Subscribe for more demos on AI infrastructure, API management, and platform engineering.

Instant API updates with Kong Insomnia | Platform engineering demo

Tired of slow, manual config changes in your internal platform? In this quick demo, we show how to instantly deploy and update your API configurations using Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and Insomnia. It’s declarative, Git-based, and built for platform engineers who want governance without the bottlenecks. What you'll see:How to manage APIs with declarative config Using Git workflows to push updates to the cloud Real-time deployment via Kong and Insomnia A clean, self-service experience for platform teams.

Drive Governance Without Sacrificing Velocity With Scorecards

Discover how to effectively balance governance and velocity using Kong Konnect's Service Catalog and Scorecards. In this webinar, Alex and Michael from Kong dive deep into strategies for streamlining API governance, enhancing visibility across your services, and automating compliance to accelerate your API lifecycle. Learn how to eliminate shadow APIs, integrate seamlessly with third-party tools, and ensure organizational best practices are consistently met.

How SeatGeek scaled to 86M+ monthly API requests with Kong Konnect

If fragmented APIs are impacting your organization’s agility or developer experience, this quick case study offers valuable insights and actionable solutions. SeatGeek transformed its fragmented API infrastructure with Kong Konnect. In this success story, discover how SeatGeek streamlined API management, enhanced visibility, and scaled effortlessly to handle over 86 million monthly requests.

Securing, Observing, and Governing MCP Servers with Kong AI Gateway

The explosion of AI-native applications is upon us. With each new week, massive innovations are being made in how AI-centric applications are being built. There are a variety of tools developers need to consider, be it supplying live contextual data via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or leveraging the new Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) to standardize how their agentic applications will communicate. The modern AI application can include communication between many different entities, including.

Insomnia 201: How Can Insomnia Support Real World API Development & Testing

Insomnia is a critical tool for the design, development, and testing of your business critical APIs. In the 101 course, we covered the basics of the API client for new users. For the 201 course, we will develop a basic REST API to demonstrate how Insomnia is an essential tool in the build stage of the API lifecycle. Join this workshop to learn how to: In preparation for the workshop, please make sure you have the following ready.

Ensuring Tenant Scoping in Kong Konnect Using Row-Level Security

In the SaaS world, providers must offer tenant isolations for their customers and their data. This is a key requirement when offering services at scale. At Kong, we've invested a lot of time to provide a scalable and seamless approach for developers to avoid introducing breaches in our systems. In this article, we'll explore the challenges of tenant scoping and how we address them effectively.

Terraform Your Way to the Cloud with Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways

Imagine a world where you could deploy your API gateways across any cloud, enforce enterprise-grade policies, and meet compliance standards all within a single Terraform apply. Most teams think about infrastructure as code only in terms of spinning up VMs, networking components, databases, or maybe a Kubernetes cluster. But what if your API platform was just as programmable? With Kong’s Konnect platform and its support for Terraform, that reality is here today!

New Enhancements to Konnect to Fuel API-Driven Innovation

APIs are the lifeblood of disruption. . . when leveraged correctly. The best, most disruptive businesses are able to harness API growth as a strategic opportunity. But how? With an API platform that drives innovation, faster delivery, and top-tier customer experiences alongside a top-notch developer experience. To that end, the Kong Konnect team has been busy executing against these goals in the new year.

What is RBAC? The Basics of Role-Based Access Control

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 both of these goals, even as organizations are quickly scaling.

What is Docs as Code? Your Guide to Modern Technical Documentation

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 out of sync — have started slowing teams down and leading to outdated or inconsistent information.

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

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 detailing the iPhone 3G. We've all had moments where technology gives us a chuckle—until it's crunch time.

Streamlining API Management at Scale: Kong Konnect Meets Terraform

Simplify and automate your API platform management across multiple clouds using infrastructure-as-code! In this insightful demo, learn how Kong Konnect and Terraform together enable rapid, scalable, and consistent deployment of your APIs. You'll discover how to: Deploy dedicated Kong API gateways across AWS, Azure, and GCP effortlessly Manage APIs and governance policies centrally using Terraform Eliminate configuration drift and compliance risks through automation.

Implementing OpenTelemetry Observability with Kong Konnect & Dynatrace

Observability has become critical to ensuring the effective monitoring of application and system performance and health. It focuses on understanding a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it produces in the context of real-time events and actions across the infrastructure. Unlike traditional monitoring, which mainly notifies you when issues arise, observability offers the tools and insights needed to determine not only that a problem exists but also its root cause.

G2 Ranks Kong #1 for API Management and API Development

Kong is ranked number 1 on the G2 Momentum Grids for API Management and API Development for Spring 2025. And users seem to agree with the glowing assessment: Kong is currently the highest-rated tool based on user satisfaction in the categories of API Management and API Development on G2. We think there are plenty of reasons why Kong is king when it comes to API management and API development. But don't just take our word for it.

API and Data Security: Is It Time to Switch to Kong Insomnia?

Recent leaks have once again brought API and data security concerns into the spotlight. Specifically, the leaks pointed at the following as major areas to consider when thinking through your API and data security strategies: When considering the above, it’s critical to think about best practices across every stage of the API lifecycle, starting with the initial phases of API design and testing.

Tracing, Logging, Metrics: Unifying Observability with OpenTelemetry

Software development has always evolved with new paradigms to meet the growing demands of modern systems. One of the most significant shifts has been the adoption of microservices. Emerging in the early 2010s, this architectural pattern moved away from monolithic applications in favor of smaller, independent services that interact with each other over a network.

Kong Gateway Operator & AI Gateway Workshop: From Traditional Workloads to GenAI

Elevate your infrastructure management with this two-hour workshop series to get hands-on experience with the Kong Gateway Operator and Kong AI Gateway. Begin with mastering Kubernetes ingress automation through the Kong Gateway Operator, then advance to building secure AI infrastructure with Kong AI Gateway. This comprehensive session equips you with practical skills for both traditional application deployment and cutting-edge GenAI implementation—all within the Kong ecosystem.

PII Sanitization Needed for LLMs and Agentic AI is Now Easier to Build

The excitement around large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI is justified. These systems can summarize, generate, reason, and even take actions across APIs — all with minimal human input. However, as enterprises race to integrate LLMs into real-world workflows — especially when those enterprises operate in regulated environments and/or deal in sensitive data — one fundamental question looms large.

Consistently Hallucination-Proof Your LLMs with Automated RAG

AI is quickly transforming the way businesses operate, turning what was once futuristic into everyday reality. However, we're still in the early innings of AI, and there are still several key limitations with AI that organizations should remain aware of to ensure that AI is being leveraged in a safe and productive way.

Introducing Kong's New MCP Server to Access Your API System of Record

MCP is a new way to integrate LLMs and AI agents with third-party data sources and APIs. It significantly improves how we build tool integrations by eliminating duplicated code and providing a centralized interface for multiple agents to access shared tools. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Kong’s MCP Server for the Kong Konnect platform. This empowers customers to integrate AI agents and query LLMs to discover APIs, services, and traffic analytics in real time.