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👋 If you're at HumanX make sure to stop by booth #402! There is no AI without APIs and we can't wait to talk about it 🎉

⌛ Reacting quickly to critical service issues is crucial. Active Tracing in Kong Konnect is here to help. The new feature, now in tech preview: ✅ Helps to improve MTTR by instantly surfacing critical performance statistics in one place ✅ Provides unparalleled visibility allowing you to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and refine your configuration 👉 You can read more about Active Tracing here: https://bit.ly/4iBHmKu

And this week one more plugin about AI. The pattern is called decorator and it is applied in this case in the context of AI. The name of the plugin is the Kong Inc. AI Prompt Decorator plugin. Did you know that you can enrich your prompts to the LLM model of your choice with this particular pattern? Using a gateway we can do just that and in this video I am talking in very simple terms about applying that to AI. It kind of works like a template (https://lnkd.in/eUUt-db2), but it is really not, it is also not about limiting the requests for our chatbot (https://lnkd.in/eSXJCzCX), but still depends on our AI proxy(https://lnkd.in/eF5wEPHH). This is also my last video about simple AI plugins and simple patterns in API gateways using Kong for the time being. The following ones I will consider them to be more of medior and advanced categories. But that is for later, for now enjoy the video. Have a good one everyone! #kong #kongai

✨ In honor of International Women’s Day, Kong hosted a leadership panel earlier this week led by our Chief People Officer, Gunjan Aggarwal and our Chief Marketing Officer, Juliette Rizkallah. Here is some of the advice they shared: 🔹 There is value both in having confidence in what you do know and the humility to recognize the things you don’t know 🔹 Embrace discomfort and push yourself, and your team, toward change 🔹 Find your own champion, whether in your organization or outside, and allow them to push you 🔹 Don’t be afraid to take risks in order to get yourself where you want to be Part of being a leader is sharing what you’ve learned to help others grow and find their own success. A big thank you to Gunjan and Juliette for taking the time to share their own experiences!🎉

The series continues! 📈 Today, Michael Field and I are talking all things API analytics, and why they’re crucial for any API Platform strategy 📈 In the video, we cover the importance of: - Metrics for platform-wide visibility into things like request volume, status code volumes, etc. for trend identification and the beginnings of debugging - Logs for more in-depth details around individual requests, headers, payloads, etc. - Tracing for advanced debugging and visibility into exactly where issues might be within your network …and of course, we show it all working in Kong Inc. Konnect with a Dedicated Cloud Gateway (which is hands-down the coolest API Gateway offering on tap right now...just saying) Let us know what you think! #ItsAPIPlatformTime

‼️ A modern API consumer experience is here. The new Kong Konnect Dev Portal is now available to try in public beta. With the modern developer’s experience at its core, it will transform your developer portals into trusted, go-to destinations for API discovery. 👉 You can learn more about it here: https://bit.ly/3QNjKXy

If you have seen my video about the AI proxy for the Kong Inc. gateway (https://lnkd.in/ec__HRmq) and next one about the AI prompt guard (https://lnkd.in/ex2RmPwA) you should now be ready to take a closer look at another AI plugin called the AI Prompt Template Plugin. In this video I discuss some usages of this plugin and I keep it very simple. I'll talk about interesting mistakes AI can make in terms of music but nonetheless how AI can be a an amazing tool especially when it becomes aware of subjective questions. Come along and let's learn about another #kong AI plugin. Stay tech, keep programming, be kind and have a good one everyone! Source code: - https://lnkd.in/eY78gSbs --- Soundtrack: - https://lnkd.in/eChNedAw --- References: - https://lnkd.in/e3Di2ZjW

‼️ NEW CHAMPION ALERT! We are thrilled to welcome vishwasrao salunkhe, Senior Product Software Engineer at Wolters Kluwer Health to our team of Kong Champions! 🗣️ “Kong’s plugin architecture is truly best-in-class, offering a seamless plug-and-play experience for users. Its cloud-native design makes it the default choice for modern API management, ensuring scalability and flexibility across diverse environments. What I particularly enjoy is the custom plugin development capability, which empowers users to create tailored solutions that address unique business needs, further enhancing Kong’s extensibility.” Are you interested in becoming a Kong Champion? Apply here - https://bit.ly/4i3wTYa #KongChampion #APIManagement

👋 Join us on March 18 to learn from Michael Heap, Director Developer Experience at Kong, about Federated Configuration Management at Scale with decK. 📝 During this call, Michael will take you through the techniques used by some of Kong’s biggest users to split their configuration files into manageable chunks. You don't want to miss it! Register here: https://bit.ly/4iCKrKz

📢 Are you attending HumanX next week? 📍 If so, make sure you stop by our booth #402. There is no AI without APIs and there is no API excellence without an API platform. Let's talk about it.