Plot twist: APIs aren't just for developers anymore. As AI agents increasingly discover and consume services, API marketplaces are taking on a whole new role. Kong's Chris Darvill dives into what that means in his latest article for Nordic APIs. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4zhmT79
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No AI without APIs. Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the connectivity layer for AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic — on any model, any cloud.
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- API gateway, AI Gateway, API Management, LLM traffic governance, API security, Semantic Caching, API lifecycle management, multi-LLM routing, API rate limiting, token budget management, API monetization, prompt injection prevention, API traffic control, API traffic management, LLM load balancing, API observability, AI cost governance, declarative API configuration, AI observability, API developer portal, agentic AI infrastructure, model context protocol, agent-to-agent governance, A2A governance, MCP, MCP Gateway, Agent Gateway, multi-agent orchestration, AI data path security, usage-based pricing, usage metering and billing, event gateway, Kafka protocol proxy, event-driven architecture, event stream governance, service mesh, zero-trust networking, microservices connectivity, envoy-based infrastructure, Kubernetes Ingress Controller, Kubernetes Gateway API, hybrid cloud deployment, multi-cloud API management, OAuth 2.0, OIDC Authentication, SAML SSO, zero-trust security, API access control, role-based access control, RBAC, API design, API testing, API debugging, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and API entitlements
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We're only a few weeks away from API + AI Summit 2026. Have you registered yet? Here's what you can expect: 🎤 Technical sessions featuring leaders from LinkedIn, The Vanguard Group, Southwest Airlines, Spotify, and more. 🛠️ Hands-on labs and real-world lessons on AI governance, agentic architectures, context engineering, token cost management, and more. 🤝 Opportunities to connect with fellow engineers, architects, and technology leaders shaping the future of APIs and AI. See you in Los Angeles! https://bit.ly/4wCT3rD
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Kong is proud to be part of the Open Secure AI Alliance. 👏
Security is strongest when organizations collaborate openly and move quickly. Now over 120 members strong, the Open Secure AI Alliance is sharing new open source security contributions, including new proposed SAFE guidelines, for turning confidential incident findings into stronger protection across the ecosystem. Learn more about the latest open source contributions from the newest members: Akamai Technologies, Amazon, Capital One, Cisco, Cloudflare, Cognition, CrowdStrike, LangChain, Microsoft, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, Perplexity, Red Hat, Uber, Veeam Software, Visa, Wiz and other Alliance members. ➡️ https://nvda.ws/3RQaki6
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In Feb 2024 we shipped the first AI gateway on the market, and last month we cut it loose from our API gateway entirely as a standalone router. For three years, AI Gateway ran as a feature inside Kong Gateway with the same codebase, release train, and quarterly cadence. It made sense when AI traffic was small and new, but it doesn't make sense anymore. Agentic world doesn't wait for quarters! MCP and A2A change mid-flight. New model providers show up every few weeks, but Kong Gateway's cadence is deliberately slow because it's running many of the largest API platforms in the world. It's hard to bolt a system that moves in weeks onto a codebase built to move in quarters, so we split them up. AI Gateway 2.0 gets its own runtime, its own control plane, its own admin API — built around models, MCP servers, and agents as a priority. Kong Gateway keeps its rhythm and AI Gateway gets its own. Another reason the market's first AI gateway is also the market's best AI gateway and most used among enterprises! Now growing ARR 11x YoY. Congrats to the amazing Kong engineering teams for pulling this off! Details: https://lnkd.in/dgKF_uEi
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Markets have evolved for thousands of years, from the agora and medieval fairs to stock exchanges and digital platforms. But what happens when the buyer is no longer human? 🤖 Kong's Patrick Woods explores how AI agents could reshape the foundations of commerce, and why the next generation of markets will need to be built for software, not just people. Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4wydjL7
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Post 3 in a 30-part series on Kong API Gateway. This one breaks down three core building blocks — Routes, Services, and Consumers — and clears up the confusion between them. You'll learn what each one actually represents, how multiple Routes can point to a single Service, how Consumers let you apply rules per client instead of globally, and how plugins can be scoped at any of these three levels. Ends with a debugging tip for tracing which Route handled a given request. #KongLearning #Kong #APIGateway #Microservices #Kubernetes #SystemDesign #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #AI #API
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Last week we opened our Kong Milan office with over 80 regional Kongers, partners and customers. Back to our roots! 🇮🇹🦍 When Marco and I started in Milan it would have been near impossible to imagine this full-circle moment. Over the last decade, many people (including the President of Italy!) have encouraged us to return to the nation and invest in the local talent across engineers, sales, products, and customer success. No better time than now. Milan is becoming a high-tech hub, home of many growing startups and public companies. We have decided to double down here --where it all started -- as primary R&D in Europe to help the world unleash AI. We chose July 20 (what we call "Kong Day") to honor the moment the company was founded. Indeed this is a return to who we are: Perseverance in building something that outlast. ONWARDS. or AVANTI TUTTA! ps: the "bathroom" last pic? where it all started next to the garage in via castaldi.
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A simple account update can trigger identity checks, approvals, validations, and updates across multiple systems. So how do you automate the workflow without losing governance? Our latest guide shows how to build a secure, self-service account update workflow using Docusign + Kong Konnect. You'll see how to: - Connect workflows to external data sources - Secure API access at the gateway layer - Test integrations before backend development - Build reusable enterprise workflow patterns ⚒️ Check out the technical walkthrough by Karissa Jacobsen. https://lnkd.in/eMPgk5F7
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Last week we opened our Kong Milan office with over 80 regional Kongers, partners and customers. Back to our roots! 🇮🇹🦍 When Marco and I started in Milan it would have been near impossible to imagine this full-circle moment. Over the last decade, many people (including the President of Italy!) have encouraged us to return to the nation and invest in the local talent across engineers, sales, products, and customer success. No better time than now. Milan is becoming a high-tech hub, home of many growing startups and public companies. We have decided to double down here --where it all started -- as primary R&D in Europe to help the world unleash AI. We chose July 20 (what we call "Kong Day") to honor the moment the company was founded. Indeed this is a return to who we are: Perseverance in building something that outlast. ONWARDS. or AVANTI TUTTA! ps: the "bathroom" last pic? where it all started next to the garage in via castaldi.
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Today I’m sharing what I’ve been working on at Kong: building market infrastructure for a world in which software can discover, evaluate, contract for, consume, and pay for services on its own. The premise is simple: software is becoming the buyer. Markets have always been shaped around the capabilities and limitations of their dominant buyer. The agora relied on physical presence. The medieval fair gave commerce a calendar. The exchange gave it memory. The platform gathered its institutions behind an interface designed for people. Now, agents require those institutions to be assembled differently. The human still sets the goal, budget, authority, and constraints but the agent operates the transaction, and so the market must make discovery, identity, trust, contracting, payment, settlement, and enforcement legible and executable to software. I wrote From Agora to Agents to trace that history, make the case for why this moment matters, and lay out the institutional opening we’re pursuing at Kong. This is what I came to Kong to build.