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# The Age of AI Connectivity

A decade ago, we set out to connect the world through APIs, which we saw as fundamental building blocks of software. Before Kong, we founded Mashape as the first API marketplace to provide an assembly line for developers building apps, and then we open-sourced its core API runtime, Kong, the…

# In the Context Economy, Context is King

Gartner's strategic planning assumption: by 2029, 50% of software application providers will be forced to share their context layer externally for third-party orchestrators to stay relevant. Today, that number is less than 2%. This isn't a gradual evolution. It's a structural shift in where value…

# From Pixels to APIs: The Programmable Economy is the Agentic Economy

The APIs that have been powering websites and apps created a massive market, but there are only up to 8 billion humans consuming them behind pixels. As LLMs are taking over the world — in the form of productized agents first — there will be 100X more machines than humans. The internet built for…

# The Platform Enterprises Need to Compete? Kong Already Built It

We have crossed a threshold in the AI economy where the competitive advantage is no longer about access to data — it’s about access to context. The "context economy" has arrived, defined by a fundamental shift from selling data products to selling context products as a service. This is the shift…

# The Incessant AI Death Knell

The CLI case is real Let's start with the strongest version of the CLI argument. For well-known tools baked into model training data (e.g., git, grep, curl, jq, docker, kubectl, gh, etc.), CLIs are highly effective for agent workflows. The model already knows the flags and the output formats. And…

# Open Banking: The Guide on APIs, Regulations, and the Future of Finance

In January 2024, consumers in the United Kingdom made a record-breaking 14.5 million open banking payments. This milestone shows how dramatically the financial services industry has changed. It's the result of years of regulatory work that kicked off back in 2017, when the UK's Competition and…

# LLM Cost Management: How to Implement AI Showback and Chargeback

Showback and chargeback are not the same thing. Most organizations conflate these two concepts, and that conflation delays action. Understanding the LLM showback vs chargeback difference is the first step toward effective AI cost governance. Both are valuable, and each has its place given certain…

# Evaluating API Testing Tools: Insomnia vs Postman

Free collaboration with Postman — a myth On March 1st, 2026, Postman discontinued free collaboration for small teams. Now , Git or Cloud-native collaboration requires a Team plan starting at $19 per person per month. That means even a 3-person team is now paying $57 per month just to keep their API…

# 5 Best Practices for Securing AI Microservices at Scale in 2026

The Stakes Keep Rising The security implications are severe. OWASP's 2025 Top 10 for LLM Applications ranks prompt injection as the number one critical vulnerability. Attackers manipulate LLM inputs to override instructions, extract sensitive data, or trigger unintended behaviors. Traditional…

# Practical Strategies to Monetize AI APIs in Production

Traditional APIs are, in a word, predictable. You know what you're getting: AI APIs, especially anything that runs on LLMs under the hood, are a completely different story. These things are highly unpredictable by their very nature. You're dealing with token-based costs that swing wildly depending…

# Connecting Kong and Solace: Building Smarter Event-Driven APIs

Running Kong in front of your Solace Broker adds real benefits: Imagine an order service that accepts REST requests and publishes them as events. 1. API Consumer calls Kong with a standard POST request: 2. Kong Gateway applies authentication, validates the payload, adds a correlation ID, rate…

# Managing the Chaos: How AI Gateways Enable Scalable AI Connectivity

Executive Summary AI adoption has moved past the "honeymoon phase" and into the "operational chaos" phase. As enterprises juggle multiple LLM providers, skyrocketing token costs, and "Shadow AI" usage, the need for a centralized control plane has become critical. This guide explores how the AI…

# Kong Simplifies Multicloud Cloud Gateways with Managed Redis Cache

Managed Redis cache is a turnkey "Shared State" add-on for Kong Dedicated Cloud Gateways. It is designed to combine the performance of an in-memory data store with the simplicity of a SaaS product. When you spin up a Dedicated Cloud Gateway in Kong Konnect, you can now toggle on Managed Redis with…

# AI Input vs. Output: Why Token Direction Matters for AI Cost Management

The Shifting Economic Landscape: The AI token economy in 2026 is evolving, and enterprise leaders must distinguish between low-cost input tokens and high-premium output tokens to maintain profitability. Agentic AI Financial Risks: The transition to agentic AI and multi-step reasoning models creates…

# Governing Claude Code: How To Secure Agent Harness Rollouts with Kong AI Gateway

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding and agent harness tool. Unlike traditional code-completion assistants that suggest the next line in an editor, Claude Code operates as an autonomous agent that reads entire codebases, edits files across multiple directories, runs terminal commands, executes…