Understanding how your APIs handle and process data drives better decision-making. Different kinds of data flow through APIs and the services that consume them. But the actual information lives inside the HTTP request and response bodies. If you can effectively leverage that data with the contextual API metrics like status codes and routes, you can better understand how your customers consume your services.

It’s here! The Kong Gateway Operator release we teased at API Summit is now available for you all to use. KGO 1.4 allows you to configure Kong Konnect using CRDs, attach your DataPlane resources to Konnect with minimal configuration, and even manage the deployment of custom plugins using Kubernetes CRDs. Keep reading to find out more.

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.9.0. This is a major release, the final one in the 3.x line. This will also be the final major release to feature the deprecated Apache ZooKeeper mode. Starting in 4.0 and later, Kafka will always run without ZooKeeper.

As customer expectations evolve, contact centers face an immense challenge: turning massive volumes of interaction data into meaningful insights. Traditional performance management systems often fall short of fully capturing the nuances of customer conversations and employee performance, limiting their ability to provide actionable insights. But what if every interaction could be harnessed to improve customer satisfaction, reduce operational redundancies, and prevent customer churn?

Push notifications play an important role in user engagement and retention in your mobile app, keeping users up to date and creating a sense of urgency that leads to purchases. And in Android, we get the added benefit of Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) notification service, which acts as a middleman between the app server and the user’s Android device. It helps the delivery of push notifications, even if the app is not active or the user is using a different app on their device.

It’s often said that being first to market with a new product or idea is the key to success, and in many cases it is. But Apple has never chased the so-called first-mover advantage. Apple wasn't the first to release an MP3 player or even the first on the market with a smartphone, yet it has consistently redefined what's possible with technology.

Kafka is a highly popular realtime data streaming platform, renowned for handling massive volumes of data with minimal latency. Typical use cases include handling user activity tracking, log aggregation and IoT telemetry. Kafka’s architecture, based on distributed partitions, allows it to scale horizontally across multiple brokers. But although Kafka excels at high data throughput, scaling it to manage thousands of client connections can be costly and complex.

The rise of AI has transformed how businesses operate, creating a surge in demand for AI-driven APIs, particularly those that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs). These APIs are at the heart of many modern applications, driving automation, customer interaction, and sophisticated data analysis. However, with this increased use comes a need for organizations to effectively monitor and manage the costs and consumption of these APIs.

Choreo is a powerful internal developer platform (IDP) as a service built for enterprises, offering a comprehensive suite of tools for CI/CD, API management, DevOps, observability, and business insights. It provides an all-in-one solution for building, deploying, governing, and monitoring enterprise applications—eliminating the need for developers to build complex CI/CD workflows or set up custom platforms.

Modern organizations generate and collect vast amounts of log data each day from an ever-increasing number of sources that includes IT infrastructure, networking devices, applications, cloud services, security tools, and more. This data is essential for powering use cases from security operations and threat hunting to application performance monitoring, but tapping into the full potential of log data can be challenging for organizations without the right tools and capabilities.