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Transparency and Trust Through Kong Gateway Performance Benchmarks and Open Source Test Suites

In the rapidly evolving landscape of API management, understanding the raw performance and reliability of your API gateway is not just an expectation — it's a necessity. At Kong, we're dedicated to ensuring our users have access to concrete, actionable data to guide their operational and development strategies.

Announcing Kong's New Open Source AI Gateway with Multi-LLM Support, No-Code AI Plugins, Advanced Prompt Engineering, and More

Today I’m excited to announce that Kong has released six new open source AI plugins in Kong Gateway 3.6 that turn every Kong Gateway deployment into an AI Gateway. These new plugins are available today and are entirely free and open source for everyone. The six new plugins are AI Proxy, AI Request/Response Transformer, AI Prompt Guard, AI Prompt Template, and AI Prompt Decorator.

Show and Tell: Discover the Benefits SmartBear's Open-Source Tools Bring to the SDLC

Open-source tooling can be incredibly helpful in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). They offer flexibility, a wide range of features, and often community support too. Watch this session to explore SmartBear’s industry-leading open-source tools (Swagger, SoapUI, Pact, and more) on how to streamline your development process to create a more tailored developer experience.

Announcing Standard Webhooks

We're pleased to announce the launch of Standard Webhooks! Kong has been part of the Technical Committee of this standard with other great companies like Svix (the initiator of the project), Ngrok, Zapier, Twillio, Lob, Mux, and Supabase. This was a year-long effort of gathering feedback, use cases, and debating about what and how to define what landed. Standard Webhooks is one initiative to standardize the way producers and consumers can have a contract to communicate.

Hacktoberfest #1 - Recognize, Celebrate and Connect open source Developers.

If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to open source, now is your chance! You can contribute to several Keploy projects participating this year’s Hacktoberfest. Anyone around the globe who desires to help drive the growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to participate. Vaunt builds vibrant open-source communities by rewarding developers for contributions, celebrating achievements, and encouraging connections.

OpenLogic by Perforce, In Collaboration With the Eclipse Foundation and Open Source Initiative, Launches the Next State of Open Source Survey

Perforce Software launches its latest survey on the usage of open source software. This survey marks the first year of collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation in addition to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), who is participating on the survey for a third year.

Introducing Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink

In the first three parts of our Inside Flink blog series, we discussed the benefits of stream processing, explored why developers are choosing Apache Flink® for a variety of stream processing use cases, and took a deep dive into Flink's SQL API. In this post, we'll focus on how we’ve re-architected Flink as a cloud-native service on Confluent Cloud. However, before we get into the specifics, there is exciting news to share.

Mission-critical data flows with the open-source Lenses Kafka Connector for Amazon S3

An effective data platform thrives on solid data integration, and for Kafka, S3 data flows are paramount. Data engineers often grapple with diverse data requests related to S3. Enter Lenses. By partnering with major enterprises, we've levelled up our S3 connector, making it the market's leading choice. We've also incorporated it into our Lenses 5.3 release, boosting Kafka topic backup/restore.