Kong Enterprise 2.7 enables companies to manage APIs and microservices at scale

Kong released Kong Enterprise 2.7, a service connectivity platform that enables companies to manage APIs and microservices at scale across any underlying architecture. This latest release features faster performance, including 25% increased throughput … Continue reading Kong Enterprise 2.7 enables companies to manage APIs and microservices at scale

Approov Alliance and Integration Program offers security solutions to protect APIs

Approov introduced the Approov Alliance and Integration Program to ensure that the critical elements of comprehensive mobile app API protection are rigorously tested and work together harmoniously and seamlessly to avoid both data leakage and exposure … Continue reading Approov Alliance and Integration Program offers security solutions to protect APIs

Venafi surpasses $100M in annual recurring revenue

Venafi announced that the company has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), cementing its leadership as category creator. This news comes on the heels of Thoma Bravo’s strategic growth investment in Venafi, valuing the company at $1… Continue reading Venafi surpasses $100M in annual recurring revenue

Kong raises $100M to scale its go-to-market operations and accelerate cloud connectivity

Kong announced it has closed $100 million in Series D funding, led by Tiger Global Management with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, CRV, GGV Capital and Andreessen Horowitz as well as new investor Goldman Sachs. This latest round b… Continue reading Kong raises $100M to scale its go-to-market operations and accelerate cloud connectivity

Kong launches Kong Konnect, its cloud-native connectivity platform

At its (virtual) Kong Summit 2020, API platform Kong today announced the launch of Kong Konnect, its managed end-to-end cloud-native connectivity platform. The idea here is to give businesses a single service that allows them to manage the connectivity between their APIs and microservices and help developers and operators manage their workflows across Kong’s API […] Continue reading Kong launches Kong Konnect, its cloud-native connectivity platform

Kong donates its Kuma control plane to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

API management platform Kong today announced that it is donating its open-source Kuma control plane technology to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Since Kong built Kuma on top of the Envoy service mesh — and Envoy is part of the CNCF’s stable of open-source projects — donating it to this specific foundation was likely […] Continue reading Kong donates its Kuma control plane to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Kong acquires Insomnia, launches Kong Studio for API development

API and microservices platform Kong today announced that it has acquired Insomnia, a popular open-source tool for debugging APIs. The company, which also recently announced that it had raised a $43 million Series C round, has already put this acquisition to work by using it to build Kong Studio, a tool for designing, building and […] Continue reading Kong acquires Insomnia, launches Kong Studio for API development

Kong launches its fully managed API platform

API platform Kong, which you may remember under its previous name of Mashape, is launching its new Kong Cloud service today. Kong Cloud is the company’s fully managed platform for securing, connecting and orchestrating APIs. Enterprises can deploy it to virtually any major cloud platform, including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and Kong will handle […] Continue reading Kong launches its fully managed API platform