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AI Observability: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Your LLM Infrastructure

Mar 17, 2025 By Kong In Kong
When your company deployed its first large language model last quarter, your CTO probably didn't mention you'd need entirely new tools to understand what's happening under the hood. But here we are. AI Observability isn't just another tech buzzword—it's the difference between confidently leveraging AI and crossing your fingers hoping nothing breaks.
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Introducing Active Tracing (Tech Preview)

Mar 11, 2025 By Saju Pillai In Kong
We're thrilled to announce the tech preview of Active Tracing, a significant advancement in Kong Konnect. This innovative feature unlocks unparalleled visibility into API traffic as it flows through Kong Gateway, empowering you to optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, and refine your API strategies.
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Insomnia 101: Introduction to API Design, Debugging, and Testing with Insomnia

Mar 7, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Take control of your API development process with Insomnia's powerful testing toolkit. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn essential techniques to validate, debug, and improve your APIs. Whether you're building integrations or maintaining existing services, you'll gain practical skills to catch issues early and streamline your development workflow. In this workshop, we'll focus on foundational concepts and getting started with Insomnia. We'll show you how to.
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The New Kong Konnect Dev Portal

Mar 6, 2025 By Erin Choi In Kong
APIs are the fuel of modern innovation, but they have to be discoverable and easily consumable to drive the maximum possible value. Without an easy-to-use, developer-friendly discovery layer, Developers are stuck searching across disparate repositories for APIs, or — even worse — wasting time and effort building redundant APIs. The market has already responded to this need with the API Developer Portal concept, where the portal acts as a central catalog for all APIs.
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Kong Konnect Advanced Analytics: Running Faster Than StatsD

Mar 5, 2025 By Hiroshi Fukada In Kong
Earlier this year the Kong Konnect Analytics team was looking to leverage the stability and flexibility of our own Kong Gateway to handle the entire load of our Analytics ingest firehose. Almost all Konnect API traffic flows through a Kong Gateway and most of it has from the very beginning. For some legacy and differing protocol reasons, our Analytics ingest service was not included in our initial Kong Gateway configuration.
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GraphQL vs REST: Key Similarities and Differences Explained

Feb 28, 2025 By Kong In Kong
Choosing the right API architecture is crucial for building efficient and scalable applications and the two prominent contenders in this arena are GraphQL and REST, each with its unique set of characteristics and benefits. Understanding the similarities and differences between these two approaches can help teams make informed decisions when designing APIs. This article aims to provide a comprehensive comparison of GraphQL and REST, highlighting their key features, advantages, and use cases.
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Agentic AI Needs an API Backbone: Cultivating Discipline & Governance for Scalable Success

Feb 27, 2025 By Kong In Kong
For organizations seeking to leverage agentic AI, the journey begins with a steadfast commitment to discipline and governance. This talk underscores that the true foundation of success in agentic AI adoption is a culture that values structured API capabilities and a rigorous approach to digital integration. By fostering disciplined practices and robust governance frameworks, businesses can establish the resilient API foundations necessary for automating complex processes and scaling AI-driven initiatives.
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Federated API Management: Balancing Speed and Control

Feb 26, 2025 By Ash Osborne In Kong
As the need for speed in business can seemingly be at odds with the need for control, organizations developing APIs today face a critical challenge: how can you empower developers to build and deploy APIs quickly while maintaining enterprise-wide governance and security? More traditional API deployment approaches are often to blame for why API initiatives fail to deliver the promised benefits as complexity and scale increase.
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