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🔌 Do you want to power agents with secure, governed enterprise context? We'll help you build the context mesh. Make sure to come by booth #960 at KubeCon next week to learn more. Let us know if we'll see you in Amsterdam! 👇

We’re building the connectivity for the AI era at @kong, and we need Rust experts to help us lead the charge. 🦀🚀 If you live for low-level, distributed systems, and event-driven infra, let’s talk. Join the Event Gateway team: buff.ly/0AYNtxf #RustLang #Kafka #Hiring

🛒 You shop online regularly. But have you ever counted how many APIs make that possible? In today's episode of The API & AI Breakdown, @hguerreroo and Amanda break down something we interact with constantly but seldom think about — APIs are the invisible engine behind every click, every page load, every "your order has shipped" notification.

🗓️ With the next EU AI Act enforcement date coming on August 2nd, now is the time to automate your compliance and governance. In Thursday's webinar, we'll cover how to automate EU AI Act compliance and secure your LLM lifecycle with Kong AI Gateway. Register here: bit.ly/4seNsFM

Before @Kong, there was Mashape. Few ppl know it was angel-funded in @travisk kitchen in 2010. Negotiating with our to-be investors. He was on my side of the table. We used to go to his bathroom together for five minutes every round of negotiation to give time for them to debate the new offers freely. At some point they wanted to leave to think a better offer. Travis told me if they leave, you won’t ever see them again. He locked the front door to make sure nobody exits the house until we got a handshake deal in front of him. And we did. I had one week left before my visa expired and few bucks left. At the time I was sleeping at the JamPad (Travis house username back then) as a guest. I cold called him from Rome to get a free spot to attend TechCrunch50 after he blogged about giving one free room. I don’t know why he picked us. Random founders from italy. Once in, we stayed longer. My contribution was cooking carbonara pasta for his better half every other night. Every weekend dozens of entrepreneurs would stop by to demo and chat their next big ideas. He showed us his latest gig. An UberCab app. The morning of Techcrunch we had to walk down 20mins to get a cab and nobody would stop. Even tho Travis was in the middle of Market street. One Sunday I met @levie in the bathroom line sharing how he was transforming @Box from consumer to enterprise and for some reasons told Travis to keep helping us. Without Travis help during that time - as immigrant barely speaking english and running out of visa time - we wouldn’t be here today. There is founder mode. And there is military mode. Travis teaches hardcore. We had 3 near-death experiences and two more pivots till the business finally took off with hundreds of millions of revenue. In retrospect, we mentally never gave up during those struggle days because of his early lessons. Now coded into our culture. I don’t think I ever thanked Travis for his fight-gift. Thank you. If someone is born in the arena, will never leave it. The game is just back on.

👀 Are you ready for API + AI Summit 2026? This is the global event for builders, architects, and leaders shaping API + AI connectivity. You won't want to miss it. Early access opens in April. Join the priority list here: bit.ly/3OL1BvH

📰 Great to see Kong in the news with our AI connectivity vision and roadmap featured in @Mi3Australia. As organizations move AI from experimentation to production, AI connectivity provides a unified way to connect, govern, and scale intelligence across APIs, AI models, and agent-based systems. Read more here: bit.ly/4rxr8WX

We have been working on this for a little while here at @kong - excited to announce it public to the world in May 2026.

You used an API this morning. Probably before you even got out of bed. 📱 The weather app? It's your phone communicating with a server in the cloud — sending a request, getting data back, and displaying it on your screen in seconds. Location. Request format. Expected response. That's the anatomy of an API call, and it's happening constantly across nearly every app on your phone. @hguerreroo and Amanda Alcamo break it down in Episode 2 of The API & AI Breakdown. No jargon. No fluff. Just clarity.

Welcome @kong, Gold Sponsor of #PlatformSummit2026. Kong is a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies. Super early bird registration is open: nordicapis.com/events/platfor…

🎙️ Introducing: The API & AI Breakdown APIs power everything, but the concepts behind them don't have to be confusing. That's why we're launching a brand new series where Amanda Alcamo and @hguerreroo break down API and AI topics in plain language. Technical depth, business context, no fluff. First up: What even is an API? If you've ever had to explain APIs to a stakeholder, a teammate, or yourself, this one's for you. 🎥 Watch the first episode and follow along so you don't miss what's next!

Insomnia 12.4 just shipped! 🚀 Tabs that work the way you expect. Git commits you actually understand. Local AI models your team can share. Smarter admin controls. 👀 Check out the demo of how to add a local LLM URL and then read the blog to learn more: bit.ly/4svEhAM

Attending HumanX next month? Stop by booth #1519 to meet the Kong team, get a demo, and learn how Kong connects the full AI data path, from APIs to events to AI-native traffic, so you can build fast, build safe, and build profitable. 🦍 Let us know if we'll see you there!

🏆 Exciting news! Kong has won the AI Innovator of the Year category in @SiliconANGLE Media's 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards. We are building the connectivity layer for the AI era, unifying APIs, AI models, events, and agentic systems through a single control plane, and an award like this is validation that what we are building is actually solving real problems at scale. Learn more here > bit.ly/4snGvlJ

Coming out of SKO FY27, we're feeling energized, aligned, and ready to conquer the year ahead. Kong is the control tower for AI connectivity and the next phase of growth and innovation will not be one to miss. 🤩 🦍 There has never been a better time to join the team! Check out our open roles: bit.ly/4cjg7Vo

Gartner recently shared a report talking about the "context economy." The idea that a competitive advantage in the AI era isn't about access to data, but the semantic intelligence, the context, wrapped around it. ✍️ Our CEO and Co-Founder, @sonicaghi shares his thoughts on this and why the context economy requires a fundamentally different infrastructure strategy in a recent blog. Check it out: bit.ly/4ccLVuX

If you're on a platform team running Kafka at scale, you've probably been asked, can you give our partners access to this event stream? 😵‍💫 If only it were that simple! Kafka was purpose-built for internal, private network environments. Architects need to adopt external Kafka connectivity best practices prioritizing security and scalability. In a recent blog, Product Manager, Anthony Gatti, writes about solving external Kafka access and how Kong's Event Gateway can help. Read it here: bit.ly/4aAebqa

🚨 New: Expose Kafka streams to the public internet with Kong Event Gateway. No more VPC peering or PrivateLinks workarounds. -> konghq.com/blog/enterpris…