We’ve spent decades perfecting APIs and integrations, yet one challenge keeps showing up: context. Without it, even the most advanced systems behave like confident guessers. With it, they become truly intelligent. We need to make context discoverable and usable in real time. 🧵👇

“We choose to go to the moon… not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” — JFK We spent decades building reliable event-driven systems. Durability, guarantees, resilience. Now agentic AI leans on HTTP webhooks. Best effort everything. Did we just forget what we learned?

“We choose to go to the moon… not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” — JFK We spent 50 years making event-driven systems reliable. Now agentic AI runs on fragile HTTP webhooks. No guarantees. Just retries and hope. Feels like we forgot the hard lessons.

We’re live at KubeCon Europe 🚀 Swing by the Kong booth to explore AI connectivity and the rise of the context mesh. If you’re building with AI, APIs, or events, this is for you 👀 Come say hi 👋

See you in Amsterdam for KubeCon EU! 🌷 We’re showcasing the future of AI connectivity and its place in the K8s ecosystem. Whether it’s service mesh or AI-driven scaling, let’s chat about what’s next. 🚀 📍 Find the Kong team at Booth 960! #KubeCon #Kubernetes #AI #CloudNative

Time to kube ✈️ Off to KubeCon Europe Amsterdam 2026, where cloud native meets the future of AI connectivity. See you there 🇳🇱

Why are inference engines a must-have for GenAI architecture? 🤖 Sat down with Taylor and Legare at DeveloperWeek to talk about moving past the 'wrapper' stage and building real, performant AI infrastructure. If you’re optimizing for latency or cost, you’ll want to see this. #DeveloperWeek #AI

Calling all Rustaceans! 🦀 Kong is hiring to build the next generation of event-driven connectivity. We’re diving deep into: 🔹 High-performance data planes 🔹 Kafka protocols Help us build the infra for the agentic era. 🤖🌐 Apply here: buff.ly/0AYNtxf #Rust #EventDriven #Kong #Jobs

Toronto is about to get a lot more eventful! 🇨🇦 I’m excited to be speaking at AgentCon Toronto on March 14. I'll be breaking down Event-Driven AI and why asynchronous architectures are the future of scalable, real-time agentic systems. See you there! 🚀 #AgentCon #TorontoTech #AIAgents #EventDrivenAI

StrimziCon 2026 has been announced 🚀 A free, virtual conference focused on running Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi. Expect real-world lessons, production stories, and deep technical insights from the community. 📅 June 3, 2026 🎤 CFP open until March 31 buff.ly/zilEQNN

AI agents are moving from hardcoded scripts to dynamic discovery. 🌐 Kong’s new MCP Registry solves the "context" problem by acting as a service catalog for AI. The infrastructure for production-grade agents is finally arriving. 🚀 buff.ly/Ic1KQsu #AI #ModelContextProtocol #BuildInPublic

Embedded AI assistants are becoming the new pop-ups. You visit a site for documentation. An AI appears instantly, answers halfway, and tries to sell you something. AI was supposed to reduce friction, not add noise.

My 2025 Year in Review is live: The Year of AI. A look back at the projects, shifts, and highlights of the year. 👉

🆕 New blog post & feature in Microcks! #Kudos to Andrea Peruffo for his great contribution to our new JavaScript dispatchers feature, including code, doc, and this excellent blog post 👏 👉 See: microcks.io/blog/js-disp... #APIs #ShiftLeft #OpenSource #Community @cncf.io / @linuxfoundation.org 🙌

Is your infrastructure the bottleneck in your AI strategy? 🤖 Most companies have an "AI plan," but few have the connectivity to actually scale it. Join Kong’s leadership on Feb 2nd to learn why connectivity is the "secret sauce" for AI success. Register: bit.ly/4pLyTZc #AI #Kong #Tech

Excited to announce I'm speaking at @DeveloperWeek 2026! 🚀 Join me on Fri, Feb 20th at 1:00 PM in San Jose for my session: "Building the Open Standard for Event Driven APIs Together." We'll dive into shaping the future of #EventDrivenAPIs and how you can contribute to the AsyncAPI ecosystem.

TIL Apple native containers are now supported with Tahoe 26. I have not upgraded yet, but I am eager to test it. Curious to hear early impressions from anyone who already jumped in.

One year at Kong! 🦍🚀 A year full of learning, shipping, and sharing ideas with the API and AI community. Proud of the work around AI Gateway, Event Gateway, and MCP. Grateful for the team and the chance to speak at API Summit, apidays, and API World. Feeling energized for Year 2.

AI-generated code often includes "Phantom APIs," which are accidental endpoints that create massive security blind spots. To mitigate this, move your defense to the API Gateway. Strict policies can block any unregistered interface before it becomes a liability. 🛠️ #CyberSecurity #GenAI

Stop using AI just for autocomplete! 🚀 Marc Nuri explains how to treat AI as a parallel workforce to 2x productivity. 🔹 Move from sync to async workflows 🔹 Why "AI-readiness" is the new Clean Code 🔹 Managing the risk of burnout Full deep dive here: buff.ly/tdWByCJ #buildinpublic #AI #programming

This architectural shift gives customers control over their data and costs while vendors focus on innovation. A win-win for cloud software of tomorrow. By @hguerreroo.bsky.social

An #MCP server for Keycloak IAM, supporting over 45 operations, including user management and realm configuration. Version 0.3 adds JWT authentication, SSE transport, Kubernetes support, containerization, health checks, and Prometheus metrics.https://shaaf.dev/post/2026-01-02-keycloak-mcp-server/

This architectural shift gives customers control over their data and costs while vendors focus on innovation. A win-win for cloud software of tomorrow. By @hguerreroo.bsky.social

​New Year's is just a celebration of surviving another YYYY-MM-DD rollover. ​Reminder: ​java.util.Date is mutable and hates you. ​SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe and will corrupt your soul. ​UTC is your only friend. ​May your 2026 be thread-safe and DST-aware! 🥂

This architectural shift gives customers control over their data and costs while vendors focus on innovation. A win-win for cloud software of tomorrow. By @hguerreroo.bsky.social

Decoupling is the future of SaaS. 🚀 I’m on The New Stack today discussing why the "Managed Brain / Local Muscle" pattern is the key to solving data residency and latency puzzles for modern teams. Check out the full deep dive: buff.ly/aXCOm40 #SaaS #CloudNative #Dev

I'm not afraid of AI taking over yet. I'll be worried when an AI can diagnose, correct, and resolve a DNS outage without the need for human intervention or log requests. Until then, DNS is our last line of defense. 😄

Welcome Waymark Health to the Microcks public adopters list 🎉 Based in Australia 🇦🇺, Waymark Health focuses on improving healthcare integration, utilizing Microcks as a shared mock server to deliver consistent, reusable REST responses & high-quality FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)

It's "End of Year" aka "CFP Season"! 🗓️ If you've been sitting on a great idea, now's the time to hit submit. Beat the rush, clear your deck for 2026, and share your wisdom! Don't overthink it, just send it. 🚀 What conferences are you targeting? #PublicSpeaking #TechTalk #CFP #DeveloperRelations

AI is bleeding money for most enterprises. 💸 Kong Konnect Metering & Billing is here to fix the unit economics of AI. 🔹 Meter across the full data path 🔹 Enforce quotas at runtime 🔹 Choose your pricing Turn your AI infrastructure into a value center. 🚀 Details: buff.ly/1s1DCj4 #AI #FinOps #Tech

Microcks maintainers have 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸! 🚀 Today we’re working from the amazing new @getpostman.bsky.social HQ. If you’d like to meet up and chat about APIs, AI, MCP, and more, feel free to DM @kheddache.me or @lbroudoux.bsky.social. Still have a few slots 😉

Signals are converging around Agent Experience. Mark O'Neil points to 2026 as a key year. Ross Mason notes that GenAI still misses the human context that drives real work. We talked about this at Kong API Summit last month. . #GenAI #AgentExperience

At apidays Paris, come visit the Open API Standards booth. You will meet people from AsyncAPI, JSON Schema and GraphQL, all sharing insights on open collaboration. I would be glad to say hello and hear what you are building.

Caught a strong view of where AI governance is heading at APIDays Paris. Jerome Guillaume explained how to control and observe LLM traffic and MCP with the Kong AI Gateway. Want more on secure and scalable AI flows? Visit the Kong booth for a live demo. #APIDaysParis #KongKonnect #AIGateway

Ready for apidays Paris and the AsyncAPI Conference. I will be at the Kong and Open Standards booths and happy to connect with AsyncAPI Ambassadors and anyone interested in AI and APIs. #apidaysParis #AsyncAPI

⚡️ Lightning Talks at the Kong Booth @ AWS re:Invent (Dec 4)! Don't miss these short, high-impact sessions on critical topics: OWASP API & LLM Top 10 Security Governing the Entire AI Data Path Solving the AI Margins Problem DEMO: Kong AI Gateway Check the image for times! Stop by! 🤝

AI is powerful, but connecting it without guardrails is a high-stakes gamble on the Vegas strip. 🎰 At #reInvent, the jackpot is secure, governed API infra. It keeps agents productive, not unpredictable, and data safe, not scattered across the casino floor. #AWSRI #reInvent #APIEconomy #AI

MCP turns one. In twelve months it shifted from idea to essential infrastructure for agent connectivity. Developers finally have a clean way to expose tools, and teams are moving past the old integration tricks. Looking forward to year two!

📢 Microcks reached 1746 stars on GitHub! Let's keep the momentum going and aim for 2k 💫 Show us some ❤️ by starring 👉 github.com/microcks/mic... Your support helps us grow the project's future in the #CloudNative and #API community. Thank you! 🙏 CNCF / @linuxfoundation.org 🙌

✈️ Welcoming Amadeus as officially listed on Microcks' public adopter list! Amadeus leverages Microcks to strengthen its shift-left strategy for mocking & contract testing. Among their use cases are using Microcks to mock OIDC, helping enforce and automate zero-trust policies...

#Strimzi 0.49.0 is out! 🎉 ⚠️ This release contains many important changes (including backwards compatibility impact), deprecations, and removals. Make sure to watch the What's new video and read the release notes carefully before upgrading! ➡️ github.com/strimzi/stri... 🎦 youtu.be/aIGZD8lk6vc

🙌 Live from #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon NA, huge congrats to Michelin for winning the Top End User Award! It's great to see a @microcks.io adopter and CNCF / @linuxfoundation.org end-user receiving the recognition they deserve! 🚀 👉 github.com/microcks/mic...

🎉 A warm welcome, XM has joined the list of Microcks adopters! 🙌 Microcks streamlines microservice development and testing by dynamically generating mocks from @openapis.org specs, gRPC contracts, and @graphql.org schemas. #CNCF / @linuxfoundation.org 🚀

In Sydney this week for the API Summit Roadshow 🇦🇺 If you’re into APIs, AI, or event-driven systems, happy to meet and chat. Reach out if you’re around!

Ingress-NGINX will retire in March 2026 — a big milestone for Kubernetes networking. Thanks to everyone who made it a cornerstone of the ecosystem. 🙏 As you plan next steps, Kong can help with Service Mesh, Gateway API & the new Kong Operator for Kubernetes. #Kubernetes #CloudNative #Kong

#KubeCon Atlanta 🍑 main event starts today! I’m speaking at 5:45 pm 🗓️ in Thomas Murphy ballroom 2-3. Join me and Artur Ciocanu to learn more about @daprdev.bsky.social and @microcks.io better together 💪 sched.co/27FVG

Get ready for an exciting event as the AsyncAPI conference makes its way to apidays Paris from the 9th to the 11th! Join us for a lineup of talks, with the dedicated AsyncAPI track on the 11th of December. Don't miss the chance to visit our API Standards booth!

The AsyncAPI Conference is coming to San Jose in February as a part of Developer Week, and we've extended the call for proposals until November 21st. Whether you're an experienced speaker or a first-timer, this is your opportunity to submit a proposal.

👻 The scariest thing this Halloween isn't a ghost story—it's an ungoverned AI project starting with: "We skipped governance to move faster." 🎃 Risks = PII leaks & runaway budgets. Don't let your AI turn into a monster. Governance is the treat that keeps you safe. #AIGovernance #DataSecurity #AI

Rolling into Day 2 of #Current2025 in NOLA! 🎺 Swing by the Kong booth to chat about event gateways and streaming systems — and catch the good vibes ⚡