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Kong Agent Gateway Is Here — And It Completes the AI Data Path You had a request going to a model, a response coming back, and a gateway in between to enforce policy. With the right solutions, this becomes manageable pretty quickly.. That world is over. Today's agentic architectures look nothing like that. Agents are delegating tasks to other agents via A2A. These other agents are producing and consuming event streams.

At Qlik Connect, one of the big messages we’re putting in front of customers is this: you’re closer to agentic AI than you think. I believe that because a lot of our customers already have more of the foundation in place than they may realize. If you have been working to improve data quality, strengthen governance, connect data across the business, and move analytics beyond reporting into real decision support, you are already building the conditions agentic AI needs to deliver value.

“The data integration landscape is currently undergoing a seismic shift. We are moving away from an era of human-led data pipelines and entering the age of Agentic Data Management.

You whipped up a simple MCP server prototype over the weekend. It routed a single AI agent to a few internal tools, your demo impressed leadership, and the team asked the dreaded question: "When can we ship?" You smiled and said, "Give me two weeks." Fast-forward three months**.** You’re firefighting expired tokens at 2 AM. The compliance team is camped in your inbox. Your once-elegant codebase is now a distributed systems nightmare. Sound familiar?

Agentic AI puts new pressure on data access, making architectural flexibility and control more important than ever.

AI test case generators are spreading across QA teams, with Gartner predicting that 80% of engineers will need to upskill by 2027. Prioritize platforms that unify AI test generation with test management rather than tools that fragment your QA workflow.

Testing software at scale has always been a race against change. Then, AI-coding turned what was once a challenge into a crisis: rapid development cycles accelerated by AI have made it impossible to maintain comprehensive test coverage and catch issues before they impact users. In SmartBear’s Closing the AI Software Quality Gap Study, 60% of software experts told us they experienced quality issues as development outpaces testing.

AI-accelerated development has fundamentally changed how software is built, and across the industry, its impact on quality is already measurable. In SmartBear’s Closing the AI software quality gap study, we found nearly 70% of software professionals report application quality is declining as AI speeds up code generation, with development velocity increasingly outpacing teams’ ability to test effectively.