Kong is hosting its API Summit 2024 event, and has made announcements about several improvements to its platforms. Key highlights are updates to Kong Konnect, its API management platform, which also includes new versions of Kong Insomnia, Kong Gateway, and Kong AI Gateway.

The latest updates to Kong Konnect help companies further prepare their API infrastructure to handle AI use cases.

“There is no AI without APIs, and the latest version of Kong Konnect delivers the essential infrastructure for both. We aim to give businesses the tools to manage and scale their API traffic securely, helping drive innovation faster than ever before,” said Augusto Marietti, CEO and co-founder of Kong Inc. “Kong Konnect provides a unified API platform for building, running and governing GenAI applications.”

This update includes Konnect Service Catalog, which provides a single source of truth for APIs and services, which helps companies manage shadow APIs by allowing them to get rid of undiscovered or unused APIs. The Service Catalog also features a Scorecard that assesses how compliance a service is with defined criteria.

Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways have expanded their availability to Azure and new AWS regions. This enhancement allows organizations to deploy and control their APIs through multiple cloud environments while upholding robust SLAs.

The newly released Kong Insomnia 10, an API design and testing tool, now features unlimited collection runs, the inclusion of AI Runner for GenAI app development, and Invite Control to ensure API assets are access-controlled.

The latest updates in Kong Konnect include the introduction of Serverless Gateways, a centralized cloud-based system for API configuration management, along with sophisticated API and AI analytics capabilities.

Additionally, the update upgrades Kong Gateway and Kong AI Gateway to version 3.8. The new Kong Gateway 3.8 introduces Incremental Configuration Updates to reduce memory and CPU consumption significantly, alongside improved OpenTelemetry support.

Kong AI Gateway 3.8 adds several semantic reasoning capabilities, including Semantic Caching, which recognizes when different prompts represent the same question, resulting in faster response times. For instance, “how long does it take to cook pasta?” and “how long does it take to cook spaghetti?” would be responded to with the same cached response.

According to the company, the ability to reply with cached responses cuts down on processing times and reduces computational overhead.

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