Kong

San Francisco, CA, USA
2017
  |  By Marco Palladino
Today we're excited to introduce SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) support in Kong Insomnia to automatically provision and deprovision user accounts using a third-party IDP. This capability will enormously simplify the process of onboarding enterprise users into Insomnia, and it's available today for every Enterprise plan customer.
  |  By Danny Freese
Before we dive in, we want to remind our readers that the Konnect engineering team actively uses Kong products like Kong Gateway, Kong Mesh, and Insomnia. In this post, we'll showcase the power of Kong Gateway and two plugins — the JQ and Request Transformer Advanced Plugins — to govern and configure APIs, and explain how it played, and continues to play, a crucial role in the release of a new v2 Konnect API specification. The key takeaway here is: don’t do more work than is necessary.
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For the last 10+ years, Docker has been one of the leading technology tools for helping developers build, run, update, and manage containers. It is one of the most widely used containerization tools available, able to work with Linux, Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, and all of the leading cloud service providers. With over 20 million monthly users, you’ve likely used Docker before, whether for your own projects or as part of a larger team.
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Multimodal AI is a critical player in the new wave of artificial intelligence. By combining different types of data like text, images, and audio, multimodal AI creates more intuitive and versatile AI systems that can more closely mimic human decision-making.
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It’s no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way companies operate with its ability to sift through mountains of data and make accurate predictions at record speed. But with great power comes great responsibility. As AI systems are more regularly incorporated into business, it’s critical that data sources are both accurate and secure to prevent error.
  |  By Silvano Luciani
We're excited to announce the release of Kong Gateway 3.8, a significant update that marks a major milestone in the evolution of our API management platform. This release is packed with enhancements designed to boost performance, fortify security, and provide greater flexibility and ease of use for our customers.
  |  By Augusto Marietti
The main fundamental question of every business today: Are you on the right side of AI? Many businesses and investors are facing the big question: will they get AI-fied and die slowly or will they be propelled by AI and grow faster? Kong API tools and the Konnect API platform will bring our customers on to the right side of AI. Every platform shift from mainframes onward has created demand for more APIs.
  |  By Claudio Acquaviva
Understanding and monitoring the performance and health of applications and systems is critical. This is where observability comes into play. Observability is about gaining a comprehensive understanding of a system's internal state by analyzing the data it generates within the context of real-time events and actions across the infrastructure.
  |  By Marco Palladino
API Summit 2024 is underway! The seventh-annual Kong event kicked off today with 7 tracks and 60+ sessions from industry trailblazers. And, of course, the two-day event is packed with Kong-related news and product updates. Looking for a quick rundown of all the big Kong news? Here's a round-up of the Kong announcements dropped today.
  |  By Eric Pulsifer
What do developers really think about artificial intelligence (AI)? To many, AI is synonymous with innovation. While some noisy naysayers on the sidelines may cry the promise of generative AI (GenAI) is overhyped, the reality experienced by actual developers and leaders in the digital trenches working with GenAI and large language models (LLMs) tells a clear story: AI is a top priority in the enterprise today because it has already delivered real, tangible business benefits.
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we'll show you how to authenticate and authorize your APIs on top of Kong with Okta using an OpenID Connect plugin.
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The AI Gateway Pattern enables organizations to adopt and securely govern AI technologies like large language models (LLMs) at scale. Acting as a centralized control plane, it streamlines data flow into AI models, ensures proper data handling and compliance, and simplifies the management of multiple LLMs. This architectural pattern empowers organizations to leverage AI’s strengths while mitigating risks, maintaining performance, and adapting to evolving technologies.
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This session covers opportunities for API development with and without AI, and consequently where AI opportunities are really appearing in practice - not in theory. What’s more, we will go over the latest AI trends and API Gateway enhancements.
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- The wide adoption of cloud-native and microservice-based applications to connect applications, data, and devices across the enterprise has led to an exponential growth in APIs. But as the API ecosystem grows, so does the risk of exposing sensitive data. APIs get directly to critical and sensitive data, making them a valuable target for hackers. How can you ensure your APIs are protected from malicious attacks and unauthorized access?
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Kong Konnect Demo: Revolutionize Your API Management with a Unified Cloud-Native Platform In this video, Vice President Product Management, Ross Kukulinski showcases how Kong Konnect addresses the challenges of API security, multi-cloud deployments, and AI workload governance. Kong Konnect is one platform to manage them all in one unified control plane: API gateways, AI gateways, ingress, and service meshes.
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How to Quickly Deploy Kong Gateways in Konnect Docker, Serverless, and Kubernetes In this video, Senior Director, Developer Relations, Michael Heap, walks through three efficient ways to deploy Kong Gateway with Konnect. Learn how to get started with Kong Gateway using Docker on your local machine, how to make your gateway publicly accessible using a Serverless Gateway, and how to set up a production deployment on Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).
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As Kong Ingress Controller is used widely in the field, ensuring its reliable and resilient error handling is crucial to us. Kong Ingress Controller 3.2 introduces a Fallback Configuration feature, designed to make sure a single mistake made in your manifests doesn't halt the whole configuration update pipeline. In this User Call, we'll cover: The Need for the Feature: Understand the critical scenarios that highlighted the necessity for improved error-handling mechanisms.
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Build new products faster, improve security, and reduce costs with Kong Konnect. Kong Konnect is one platform to manage them all in one unified control plane: API gateways, AI gateways, ingress, and service meshes. So you can move fast without losing control. That means scaling up to meet demand — and exceeding customer expectations with superior digital experiences. Deployed as a hybrid or a fully managed service, Kong Konnect automates security, federates governance, and lets you adopt AI faster with multi-LLM support.
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If you're keeping an eye on the service mesh ecosystem, you may have heard a lot of debate about sidecars. Up until recently, there have been some real pain points with sidecars in Kubernetes. As surprising as it sounds, there was actually no real concept of a sidecar at all. With Kubernetes v1.29, a number of those points have been solved with the release of the native sidecars feature. Kong Mesh's most recent release v2.7 adds support for this game-changing feature.
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Timestamps: This demo showcases the latest features and enhancements in Kong's AI Gateway, as of the June 2024 release.
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In this eBook, Kong Co-Founder and CTO Marco Palladino illustrates the differences between API gateways and service mesh - and when to use one or the other in a pragmatic and objective way.
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In this eBook, Kong Co-Founder and CTO Marco Palladino breaks down how Kuma now supports every cloud vendor, every architecture and every platform together in a multi-mesh control plane. When deployed in a multi-zone deployment, Kuma abstracts away both the synchronization of the service mesh policies across multiple zones and the service connectivity (and service discovery) across those zones.
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We live in an exciting time for software; we are witnessing a monumental shift in how applications are built. We have the opportunity to participate in the large-scale movement from centralized applications to decentralized, highly performant software architectures.
  |  By Kong
To better prepare for the future, it's important to get a solid understanding of this rising technology trend. In this e-book, we examine cloud native architecture, look back at the rise of cloud native app development, and explore the future of cloud native on the entire software ecosystem.
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This eBook explains how microservices can facilitate the adoption of a multi-cloud strategy. Included are a holistic overview of the multi-cloud pattern including the benefits and drawbacks, strategies for adoption, and challenges to overcome if adopting the strategy without microservices.
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Performance is a critical factor when choosing an API management solution. For businesses, the need to deliver low latency and high throughput is critical to ensuring that API transaction rates keep up with the speed of business. This white paper compares the performance of Kong and Apigee to understand performance in production environments.
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This ebook explains the process for transitioning from a monolithic to a microservices-based architecture. Included are technical aspects and common mistakes to avoid.
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This ebook explains how Kubernetes is modernizing the microservices architecture. Included are a deep dive into the history of Kubernetes and containers, the technical and organizational benefits of using Kubernetes for container orchestration, as well as considerations for adopting it.
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This eBook compares a monolithic vs microservices architectural approach to application development. It dives into the benefits and challenges of microservices and helps you determine whether a transition to microservices would be right for your organization.
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This ebook explains the role that the service mesh pattern plays in the leap towards de-centralized architectures. A novel re-packaging of the functionalities of traditional API gateways, service mesh represents the next stage in the natural evolution of microservices.

Next-Generation API Platform for Modern Architectures. Connect all your microservices and APIs with the industry's most performant, scalable and flexible API platform. Empower your developers to build and optimize APIs. Leverage the latest microservice and container design patterns.

The Service Control Platform transcends API management to intelligently broker information across all your services. With Kong’s fast, flexible, and lightweight core, you control your entire service architecture – centralized or decentralized, microservices or monolith. Kong Service Control Platform transforms your static endpoints into a dynamic network of intelligent services.

Built for Modern Architectures:

  • Connect Everything: Use plugins to extend and connect services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, regardless of vendor.
  • Accelerate Innovation: Use Kong's robust library of plugins to reduce redundant coding tasks across teams, technologies and geographies.
  • Improve Governance: Analyze real-time data to ensure adherence to policies across teams, partners and individual endpoints.
  • Automate End-to-end: Connect Kong with automation tools. Generate custom workflows to improve efficiency and reduce errors.
  • Unlock New Ecosystems: Instantly leverage new ecosystems. Deploy Kong with Kubernetes, containers, and more out of the box.
  • Increase Compliance: Limit access with role-based access control (RBAC). Encrypt end-to-end to comply with industry regulations.

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