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API Gateway vs AI Gateway - What Actually Changed?

Kong's AI Gateway applies the same architectural pattern as the API Gateway — now governing LLM, MCP, and agent traffic at the infrastructure layer. Just as API gateways abstracted rate limiting, auth, and caching across microservices, AI gateways do the same for large language models and agents — with token budgets, semantic caching, and semantic routing replacing their REST equivalents. Kong breaks this into three layers: LLM Gateway, MCP Gateway for tool calls, and Agents Gateway for agent-to-agent traffic.#Shorts.

What are Virtual Users (VUs) in Load Testing? Definition + Examples

Virtual users (VUs) are the simulated humans that hit your system during a load test. They’re the load. Where real users come from browsers and apps, VUs come from a test harness. JMeter threads, k6 worker goroutines, Locust greenlets. Each VU sends requests, waits for responses, sometimes pauses (“think time”), and repeats. Aggregate enough VUs and you get traffic that looks like a real audience.

Ep 75 | Why Enterprise AI Still Breaks at Scale with Ravit Jain

As organizations rush to scale AI, many are learning that better models can’t compensate for weak data foundations. AI hype is everywhere, but operational readiness still isn’t. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Ravit Jain, founder of The Ravit Show and one of the leading voices in the global data and AI community, to explore the trends shaping the future of enterprise AI.

Customer Data Ingestion at Scale for B2B Platforms

Customer data ingestion is the process of collecting customer records from CRM, ERP, product, support, and file-based sources, validating them, and routing them into the systems that power onboarding, reporting, and activation. For B2B platforms, a good approach is a tenant-safe pipeline that can land history, sync ongoing changes, and deliver trusted records quickly.

Simplifying Modernization with Flexible Acquisition Options

Modern infrastructure transformation should accelerate innovation — not add complexity. As organizations modernize to support mission-critical workloads, hybrid architectures, AI data activation, and third-party environments, they need flexibility, visibility, and trust. That’s why Hitachi Vantara is simplifying infrastructure acquisition and management by delivering an outcome-driven experience for the data center.

Tableau's Cloud-Only Future: What Embedded Analytics Teams Need to Know

Tableau's direction is clear. For embedded analytics teams serving customers with strict governance, data residency, or infrastructure requirements, "cloud only" constrains your product, your market, and your roadmap. In this video, we break down what Tableau Next's Hyperforce launch actually means for ISVs and SaaS vendors building embedded analytics, including: If you're doing real long-range planning, this is the conversation that matters.

Is WebSockets enough for AI chat?

WebSockets are the right protocol for production AI chat. But that fact doesn’t prevent the failure most teams hit first. An enterprise load balancer closes the idle connection at 60 seconds during a tool execution wait. Your reconnect logic fires in under a second, the agent keeps running server-side, and the client receives nothing from the gap. No tokens, no tool call results, no context. The reconnected socket has no view of what happened while it was down.

How to Add Your First Streaming Transformation with Flink

A streaming transformation is a continuous operation that processes events as they arrive, applies logic in real time, and emits transformed results immediately—without waiting for batch jobs to complete. In Apache Flink, a streaming transformation runs continuously, reacting to each event from a stream. This enables real-time data transformation directly on live data.

Instant Java Client SDK, no spec required!

Learn how to generate a client SDK for a production service when you have no documentation, no OpenAPI spec, and no remaining team knowledge of the original Ruby code. This demo shows you how to capture real production data from a running app and transform it into a functional Java client library in minutes. Visit proxymock.io OR speedscale.com to learn more.