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You Might Be Doing API-First Wrong, New Analyst Research Suggests

Sep 3, 2025 By Heather Halenbeck In Kong
Ever feel like you're fighting an uphill battle with your API strategy? You're building APIs faster than ever, but somehow everything feels harder. Wasn’t API-first supposed to make all this easier? Well, you're not alone. And now industry analysts are noting it as well. New Gartner research on successful API-first integration just came out, and it validates something we've been saying for a while: many organizations are fundamentally misunderstanding what API-first actually means. The result?
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Level Up Your Digital Health Platform with Kong, SMART on FHIR, Okta

Sep 2, 2025 By Biswa Mohanty In Kong
The healthcare industry is buzzing about FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). Pronounced “fire,” this widely adopted data standard has been revolutionizing how healthcare information is exchanged. But building a truly modern, secure, and scalable digital health platform takes more than just a data standard. Here comes SMART on FHIR, a framework that builds on FHIR to create a universal, secure, and user-friendly way for applications to access electronic health records(EHRs).
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API Testing: A Guide for Beginners and Experts

Sep 1, 2025 By Adam Bauman In Kong
Behind every smooth user experience is a maze of APIs quietly handling requests, responses, and data flows. This makes APIs critical connectors that enable applications to communicate and share data seamlessly. When these vital conduits fail, the consequences can be severe—system outages, data breaches, and frustrated users. API testing is the unsung hero ensuring your digital world runs smoothly and securely.
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Workshop Automations 101: Introduction to API Platform-as-a-Service Concepts and Delivery Methods

Aug 27, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Discover the fundamentals of delivering API management as a platform service with Kong Konnect. In this introductory workshop, we’ll explore essential concepts and methodologies that Platform Providers use to provide scalable, self-service API management capabilities to Platform Consumers.
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AI Guardrails: Ensure Safe, Responsible, Cost-Effective AI Integration

Aug 25, 2025 By Jason Matis In Kong
As enterprises increasingly embed AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) into their digital experiences, enforcing robust AI guardrails becomes paramount to safeguard users, protect data, manage operational costs, and comply with regulatory and ethical standards. Think of AI guardrails as essential controls: policy, technical, and operational layers carefully placed around your AI services to detect, prevent, and mitigate any unsafe, abusive, or unintended behaviors.
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Announcing terraform-provider-konnect v3

Aug 22, 2025 By Michael Heap In Kong
It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider. In that time we’ve seen over 300,000 installs, have 1.7 times as many resources available, and have expanded the provider to include data sources to enable federated management of your Konnect organization. There have been many changes in the last year, but there are some changes that we’ve been holding off on as they would break your CI/CD pipelines.
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Custom Dashboards in Konnect Analytics Now Generally Available

Aug 21, 2025 By Christian Heidenreich In Kong
If you build APIs, you’ve probably been in two kinds of conversations. One is the war room, where the team is chasing a latency spike, an outage, or a sudden drop in traffic. The other is the boardroom, where you need to show how the platform is performing, which APIs are growing, and whether your investments are paying off. Dashboards are the tool people turn to in both cases.
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Observe and Scale Mission-Critical Apps with Kong's API Platform + Dynatrace

Aug 20, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Join us for a Dynatrace + Kong webinar where you’ll discover a complete OpenTelemetry-based observability solution, demonstrated through an end-to-end Kubernetes deployment: In this session, we’ll explore how to: Combining deep observability with robust platform and system management, this webinar will also show how Dynatrace and Kong work together to help teams deploy, operate, and scale mission-critical applications with confidence.
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Custom Dashboards in Kong Konnect | Part 3

Aug 18, 2025 By Kong In Kong
The growth of APIs, teams, and services often leads to dashboard sprawl, making it difficult to find the information you need when you need it. This video introduces a powerful solution now generally available in Kong Konnect: using labels and taxonomy to organize your analytics dashboards. Learn how to structure your dashboards around common business concepts like team, service name, or environment. This organization, combined with Konnect's universal quick search, allows you to find any dashboard instantly, directly from the top search bar, no matter where you are in the platform.
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