Slack’s AI search now works across an organization’s entire knowledge base Slack is introducing a number of new AI-powered tools to make team collaboration easier and more intuitive. “Today, 60% of organizations are using generative AI. But most still fall short of its productivity promise. We’re changing that by putting AI where work already happens — … continue reading
Kong has introduced the latest update to Kong AI Gateway, a solution for securing, governing, and controlling LLM consumption from popular third-party providers. Kong AI Gateway 3.11 introduces a new plugin that reduces token costs, several new generative AI capabilities, and support for AWS Bedrock Guardrails. The new prompt compression plugin that removes padding and … continue reading
Kong is attempting to make Kafka more approachable to developers by reducing the complexity of managing it via its newly released Kong Event Gateway. The new platform allows developers to “expose, manage, and secure real-time event streams from Apache Kafka as Konnect-managed APIs and services.” According to Kong, this will enable developers to build data-based … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are also always releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about. Anthropic … continue reading
Kong has announced updates to its AI Gateway, a platform for governance and security of LLMs and other AI resources. One of the new features in AI Gateway 3.10 is a RAG Injector to reduce LLM hallucinations by automatically querying the vector database and inserting relevant data to ensure the LLM is augmenting the results … continue reading
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 … continue reading
Kong recently unveiled a collection of six open-source AI plugins for Kong Gateway 3.6. The plugins offer integration with multiple LLMs and significantly advance AI technology accessibility for developers and platform teams. According to Kong, the goal of this release is to enhance developer productivity by simplifying the integration process of LLMs into various products. … continue reading
The API company Kong has announced a new managed service for running Kong Gateways so developers don’t have to worry about the underlying infrastructure. The new service, Dedicated Cloud Gateways, is a part of Kong Konnect, the company’s API management platform. “At Kong, we enable any company to become an API-first company — speeding up time … continue reading
At today’s fifth annual Kong Summit 2022 conference, the cloud natuve API organization, Kong, unveiled several new performance, security, and extensibility capabilities across the entirety of its product portfolio. Among these updates are major new releases of Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, Kong Mesh, Kong Insomnia, and Kong Ingress Controller, and multiple new projects from the … continue reading
API company Kong announced the general availability of Kong Enterprise 2.7, which delivers 25% faster performance compared to previous versions, improved security, and streamlined workflows. Kong Enterprise is a service connectivity platform that enables organizations to secure, connect and orchestrate their APIs and services across cloud native, hybrid and on-premise environments. The new version achieved … continue reading
LogDNA, the observability data platform, today announced a $50 million Series D funding round led by cybersecurity investment and advisory firm, NightDragon. This financing round also includes participation from existing investors Emergence and Initialized Capital. The investment comes on the heels of Deloitte’s 2021 Technology Fast 500, which highlighted LogDNA’s 1293% revenue growth from 2017 … continue reading
Kong has announced that its service mesh Kuma has reached its 1.0 release. Kuma helps organizations create service meshes for every application they have running, across multiple clusters and clouds, including Kubernetes and VM-based workloads. The Kuma 1.0 release includes several capabilities that help with multi-zone deployments, such as auto generation of “Zone” resources, locality … continue reading
