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Expanded Observability, Orchestration, and Security with Kong Gateway 3.13
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.
An Early Christmas Present for the AI C-Suite: Metering & Billing Comes to Kong Konnect
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.
Move More Agentic Workloads to Production with AI Gateway 3.13
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.
How reverse ETL helps data teams
Discover how leading companies use reverse ETL to close the communication gap, unlock data trust, and turn complex data into meaningful business impact.
2026 Data & AI Predictions: What Trends Will Shape the Future?
We recently released our 2026 Confluent Predictions Report, outlining bold ideas and trends that are shaping the future of data, AI, and real-time systems. And stay tuned for an upcoming episode of the Life Is But a Stream web show that will air early in the new year. Join the conversation as host Joseph Morais sits down with Sanjeev Mohan, independent analyst at SanjMo, for an exciting roundtable discussion breaking down those predictions. Are they forecasts? Are they trends? And which ones will matter most as we move forward into 2026?
An Enterprise Guide to PCI DSS Compliance Requirements
If your company handles customer payment information, it’s critical for you to understand PCI DSS compliance requirements. A single breach can result in substantial financial penalties and damage your brand's reputation. In my experience working with enterprise customers, I’ve seen firsthand how non-production environments often become a blind spot for compliance efforts.
How SpotterCode Supercharges ThoughtSpot Embeds for Developers
Developers, ditch the documentation dive! SpotterCode is your 10x coding partner for embedded intelligence. ThoughtSpot's Nicolas Rentz shows how SpotterCode leverages the ThoughtSpot SDK docs and code examples to auto-generate production-ready code directly in your IDE. Accelerate your path to market with clean, seamless integration.
Keep Data Secure While Delivering Self-Service Analytics with Stephen Ball | CodeRage 2025
How much time is wasted every month exporting data, building slide decks, and emailing reports around — only for them to be instantly outdated or land in the wrong inbox?
Accelerate your Releases with AI-Driven Test Prioritization
Testing is changing, and AI is leading the next step Every QA team faces the same pressure: test more, deliver faster, and never miss a defect. But as projects grow and release cycles shorten, running every test in every sprint isn’t always realistic. The challenge isn’t just about automating more, it’s about deciding what to test first. That’s where AI comes in.
Compliance Horizon 2026: When Regulatory Change Moves Faster Than Your Disclosure Process
Every compliance team knows regulatory change is constant, but 2026 is shaping up to be a perfect storm. With SEC climate rules about to take effect, CSRD deadlines accelerating, and FASB updating requirements every few months, reporting expectations are moving faster than most infrastructures can keep up. You finalized your 10-K template in January. By March, FASB changed two requirements. Now you’re rebuilding everything again.