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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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Kong AI Gateway and the EU AI Act: Compliance Without the Rewrites

Nov 26, 2025 By Jordi Fernandez Moledo In Kong
The EU AI Act is here, and for many enterprises, it represents a massive coordination challenge. As the world’s first comprehensive AI law, it mandates strict governance on transparency, risk management, and data quality. For platform engineers and architects, the immediate question is operational: How do we comply with these new regulations without forcing every developer to rewrite their applications?
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AI Voice Agents with Kong AI Gateway and Cerebras

Nov 24, 2025 By Claudio Acquaviva In Kong
The integration of next-generation AI workloads — from large language models (LLMs) to speech-to-text and text-to-speech — demands a powerful, secure, and scalable infrastructure. This is especially true for building advanced AI voice agents, which rely on seamless, natural, and highly efficient user interaction.
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[Workshop 101] Build an Enterprise-Grade AI Platform with Kong AI Gateway

Nov 21, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Join us for an in-depth session, "Build an Enterprise-Grade AI Platform with Kong AI Gateway," where we'll explore how organizations can securely operationalize AI at scale. Discover how Kong AI Gateway unifies APIs and AI services under one platform—enabling centralized governance, cost-efficient observability, and consistent policy enforcement across LLMs, embeddings, and AI workflows. Learn how to accelerate innovation while maintaining compliance and performance through capabilities like prompt introspection, semantic caching, and dynamic routing across private and public AI models.
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