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What is an AI Gateway?

The rise of AI and LLMs in our world is revolutionizing the applications we’re building and the customer experiences we’re delivering. This is one of the pivotal moments in our industry where we cross over an intersection in our technology evolution to enter a new journey with a paradigm shift. Past intersections were the rise of mobile, the rise of the cloud, and the rise of microservices, among others. Some people may even say that AI is as revolutionary as the birth of the internet.

Managing Open Banking APIs with Kong

In the Open Banking ecosystem, Kong Gateway emerges as a pivotal tool. It ensures that financial institutions can comply with stringent regulatory standards and leverage the opportunities presented by this new, data-driven landscape. This article will cover an in-depth look at the open banking landscape. In the Open Banking ecosystem, Kong Gateway emerges as a pivotal tool.

Kong Ingress Controller for Kong Gateway Users

If you're an existing Kong Gateway user who is starting to dip their toes in to Kubernetes, this session is for you! Join Michael as he explains how Kong Ingress Controller works using Kong Gateway concepts. There will be a brief introduction to Kubernetes, and explanation of how to configure Kong entities on Kubernetes and even a live demo to show how it all fits together.

Scalable Architectures with Vue Micro Frontends: A Developer-Centric Approach

In this article, which is based on my talk at VueConf Toronto 2023, we'll explore how to harness the power of Vue.js and micro frontends to create scalable, modular architectures that prioritize the developer experience. We'll unveil practical strategies, best practices, and real-world use cases that empower developers to build robust, maintainable applications without compromising on agility.

Announcing the Kong Konnect Mesh EKS Blueprint Add-on

We’re excited to announce a new addition to our Kong Konnect EKS Blueprint Family: the Kong Konnect Mesh EKS Blueprint Add-on to deploy your Mesh Zones. Deploy your zones securely on AWS with the new Mesh Manager offering in Kong Konnect. It gives you an opinionated install of Kong Mesh to quickly ramp up on Kong Konnect’s Mesh Manager on Amazon EKS. Let’s dive in.

Kong Konnect is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace

Now you can find and purchase Kong Konnect through the Google Cloud Marketplace! Kong Konnect is the unified API platform that allows you to manage multiple gateways across service meshes, ingress, cloud, and Kubernetes providers no matter where they run — on-premises, hybrid, cloud, or multi-cloud.

Layered Security Strategy for Managing APIs

This post is part of a series on becoming a secure API-first company. For a deeper dive, check out the eBook Leading Digital Transformation: Best Practices for Becoming a Secure API-First Company. As APIs have become mission-critical, securing them against threats is crucial. APIs are an attractive target for attackers, and a single vulnerability can expose an organization's most sensitive information assets. To properly secure APIs, we have to move beyond basic perimeter defenses.

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.

Kong Gateway 3.5 Updates & WASM Support

We are thrilled to share with you the updates from the Kong Gateway 3.5 release! You will find a ton of new features, anchored by improvements across observability, security posture, performance, and deVx. Observability: Security: Performance: DevEx: We will also talk about the improvements in WebAssembly support in Kong Gateway 3.5. Since our initial release in 3.4, we’ve taken your feedback to heart and made various changes and improvements to both the back-end implementation of this feature and the end-user experience.