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The 2025 Kong Year in Review

Dec 30, 2025 By Amit Dey In Kong
Another year is wrapping up, and we’re taking a moment to reflect on what made 2025 a defining year for Kong. With major advances in building the AI connectivity layer and soaring enterprise adoption of agentic systems, this year sparked a hockey-stick surge in demand for the infrastructure that powers intelligent agents. Below is a rundown on the updates, the innovations, and the moments that moved the industry in one year-end recap.
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Move More Agentic Workloads to Production with AI Gateway 3.13

Dec 18, 2025 By Greg Peranich In Kong
Kong AI Gateway 3.13 moves enterprises from AI experimentation to shipping production-grade agents by unlocking new capabilities focused on agentic security, developer productivity, and resilience, including MCP tool-level access control, expanded provider support, and smarter load balancing.
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An Early Christmas Present for the AI C-Suite: Metering & Billing Comes to Kong Konnect

Dec 18, 2025 By Alex Drag In Kong
Happy holidays from the Kong team! Consider this our gift to everyone who's been asked "what's the ROI on AI?" one too many times. The AI boom has a dirty secret: for most enterprises, it's bleeding money. Every LLM call, every agent invocation, every API request that powers your AI products — they all cost something. And right now, most organizations have no idea what they're spending, who's spending it, or how to control that spend. Finance teams are flying blind.
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Expanded Observability, Orchestration, and Security with Kong Gateway 3.13

Dec 18, 2025 By Amit Shah In Kong
Discover expanded OpenTelemetry support, full cloud-native authentication, powerful Datakit orchestrations, and PCI DSS 4.0 attestation for Kong Konnect and Cloud Gateways. As API ecosystems grow more complex, maintaining visibility and security shouldn't be a hurdle. Kong Gateway 3.13 simplifies these challenges with expanded OpenTelemetry support and more flexible orchestration. These new capabilities not only make your APIs more observable but also make it easier to implement orchestration.
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The Age of AI Connectivity

Dec 18, 2025 By Augusto Marietti In Kong
Kong was born to connect. The world is shifting from connecting cloud services with apps to connecting LLMs through agents. API calls and tokens are moving in tandem; a new unit of intelligence is forming. As AI traffic explodes into hypervolumes, speed is all that matters. The same principles of performance, security, and reliability behind Kong are essential in an agentic world. A new connectivity layer for AI is born.
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Konnect Wins InfoWorld's 2025 Technology of the Year for API Management

Dec 16, 2025 By Kong In Kong
We’re thrilled to share that Kong Konnect, our unified API and AI platform, has been named a winner of Foundry Co.'s InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2025 in the API Management category. InfoWorld’s annual awards recognize the most innovative software development, DevOps, cloud, data management, and AI/ML products on the information technology landscape.
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Insights from eBay: How API Ecosystems Are Ushering In the Agentic Era

Dec 15, 2025 By Amit Dey In Kong
The rise of intelligent agents and AI prompts is transforming APIs from mere infrastructure into the capability ecosystem of the agentic era, driving a new model of ecosystem-led growth. To prepare for the inevitable explosion of agent-driven API traffic, enterprises are prioritizing a strategic approach to API governance, developer experience, and scalable infrastructure.
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The AI Governance Wake-Up Call

Dec 12, 2025 By Taylor Hendricks In Kong
Companies are rapidly adopting AI, but it's not all roses. The excitement comes with significant risks, such as shadow AI, runaway costs, and security nightmares. This post explores the real challenges organizations face in AI governance today and highlights how forward-thinking companies are beginning to tackle them. Companies are charging headfirst into AI, with research around agentic AI in the enterprise finding as many as 9 out of 10 organizations are actively working to adopt AI agents.
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Stay Vendor Agnostic: Using an Abstraction Layer to Navigate Acquisitions

Dec 12, 2025 By Hugo Guerrero In Kong
The messaging and data streaming industries are constantly evolving, with major shifts such as large vendor purchases. If your company relies heavily on a platform such as Apache Kafka and you recently discovered that your vendor was acquired by a competitor, you are most likely dealing with a combination of uncertainty, budgetary risks, and technical difficulties.
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Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server Technical Breakdown

Dec 11, 2025 By Claudio Acquaviva In Kong
"Too much information running through my brain." When The Police sang this opening line on their 1981 album Ghost in the Machine, they weren't thinking about artificial intelligence, but the sentiment perfectly captures the state of modern AI. The song warns of an overload of data that parallels how modern AI agents process extensive collections of messages and data.
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[Workshop 201] Beyond the Gateway: Governing Secure and Observable AI Agents

Dec 10, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Join our 201-level session, "Beyond the Gateway: Governing Secure and Observable AI Agents," to move from managing simple AI calls to governing autonomous systems. Building on 101's foundation, this workshop provides the advanced blueprint to secure agent connections with granular, identity-aware policies and robust tool-use governance, ensuring you control what agents can access and which actions they can perform. We'll also dive into how to observe these autonomous interactions, using real-time behavior tracing and cost analysis to maintain performance and compliance.
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What is Apache Kafka? Guide for Beginners

Dec 8, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Apache Kafka powers real-time data at companies processing substantial event volumes daily. The new KRaft architecture makes getting started easier than ever. The platform handles massive data flows for more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies (Apache Kafka), according to the Apache Software Foundation. Event streaming represents a fundamental shift in data processing. Traditional databases save snapshots. Event streaming captures data in motion. It's the difference between a photo and live video.
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