Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Streaming Agents enable you to build, deploy, and orchestrate event-driven agents on Apache Flink and Apache Kafka. Embedded in the stream, they can tap into the latest enriched data and be the eyes and ears of a business, continuously monitoring and acting on live operational events. In this demo, Brenner Heintz, Staff Technical Marketing Manager at Confluent, shows how to build price matching agents, do vector search for retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and leverage Confluent’s Real-Time Context Engine to process and serve fresh context the moment it’s needed for AI decision-making.

This hands-on Developer Day builds on the first two workshops (Platform setup and APIOps automation) to deliver a complete developer experience. You’ll stand up a Kong Konnect Developer Portal with self-registration and application onboarding, wire the portal to an OIDC identity provider for SSO and token issuance, and publish APIs and docs from your APIOps pipeline. In parallel, you’ll configure Konnect Analytics to capture metrics and usage data from your Kong gateways and services.

Go inside the incredible origin story of Kong with CEO and Co-founder Augusto Marietti. In this recent interview with Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Augusto shares the pivotal moments and challenges that defined Kong's early days.