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Nathan Golan reposted thisWe’re pulling together a strong group for May 7 in DC at the Salamander, hosted by Kong. Teams from across Federal government and the private sector already confirmed. The focus is less on presentations and more on how organizations are actually approaching AI in production — governance, cost control, and getting real workloads live. If you’re working through similar questions, would be great to have you there. #KongFederal #AI #AIGatewayNathan Golan reposted thisFrom Seattle to D.C., we're going coast to coast for the Kong Agentic Era World Tour! 🦍 If you're an AI-decision maker, a builder, or anyone in between, you won't want to miss this. These events will cover what it takes to win in the age of AI connectivity. You can expect conversations on AI cost control, AI governance, making sense of agentic protocols, and more. Learn from your peers. Network with those navigating the same decisions as you. Free to attend. Limited seats. Register before it's too late! https://bit.ly/4dKInAS
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Nathan Golan shared thisLooking forward to seeing everyone at this event in DC on May 7! Reserve your spot at the link below.Nathan Golan shared thisFrom Seattle to D.C., we're going coast to coast for the Kong Agentic Era World Tour! 🦍 If you're an AI-decision maker, a builder, or anyone in between, you won't want to miss this. These events will cover what it takes to win in the age of AI connectivity. You can expect conversations on AI cost control, AI governance, making sense of agentic protocols, and more. Learn from your peers. Network with those navigating the same decisions as you. Free to attend. Limited seats. Register before it's too late! https://bit.ly/4dKInAS
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Nathan Golan reposted thisNathan Golan reposted thisDid you hear about the Uber and Anthropic news? Over the next few weeks and months, how many Engineering leaders are about to wake up, have their coffee, and then start their work days with emails from the CTO, CIO, and/or CFO (yikes if it's all three!!) about AI program budgets already being consumed for all of 2026... ...in April? In May? My guess? A lot. I don't think Uber is alone. If what Kong has been saying is right, this "hidden" AI coding cost problem is about to become very "unhidden." And it's going to happen very fast. Speed alone is just a fast way to fail. Speed. Cost. Risk. All must be governed. Learn more here: #AgenticAI #AIConnectivity #AIFinOps #ClaudeCode
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Nathan Golan reposted thisNathan Golan reposted this"All the Web's an API, and AI Agents its users", to paraphrase Shakespeare. Salesforce's Headless 360 is a major step in this direction. "No AI without APIs", as Augusto Marietti has said. But here are some concerns: - Very few vendors have everything in their UX available in a API. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) console has everything in its UX in an API, but it's one of the *very few* true examples of this practice. Expect vendors now to scramble to build out their APIs to fully reflect everything in their UX. - Computer Use is the antithesis of APIs. And it's growing. If your APIs have too much sign-up friction, expect your UX to be scraped by AI agents instead. Vendors like Jentic are working to reduce this API friction for AI agents. - Headless SaaS is not new. We've been tracking it on our Hype Cycle for some years now. It went through the Trough of Disillusionment over the past few years. Why? Because it means giving up control of the System of Engagement. And API pricing has always been tricky - which is why my Gartner colleagues like John Santoro gets so many client inquiries about API pricing. The last point is key: Headless SaaS means giving up control of the System of Engagement. Is that a capitulation to AI Agents, or is it a smart move?
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Nathan Golan shared thisWe will be hosting sessions in both Atlanta (May 21) and Washington, DC (May 7). Should be some great conversations about how to manage AI Connectivity and ensure security, governance and observability. You do not want to miss this. Sign up link below!Nathan Golan shared thisFrom Seattle to D.C., we're going coast to coast for the Kong Agentic Era World Tour! 🦍 If you're an AI-decision maker, a builder, or anyone in between, you won't want to miss this. These events will cover what it takes to win in the age of AI connectivity. You can expect conversations on AI cost control, AI governance, making sense of agentic protocols, and more. Learn from your peers. Network with those navigating the same decisions as you. Free to attend. Limited seats. Register before it's too late! https://bit.ly/4dKInAS
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Nathan Golan reposted thisNathan Golan reposted thisAs API platform architectures get more complex, so does managing policy logic and security toil across the entire infrastructure. 📣 API Gateway 3.14 has arrived to address these challenges. New capabilities include: 🔹 Conditional plugin execution to simplify complexity 🔹 Build complex authentication policies with JWT nodes for Datakit 🔹 Close the security and visbility gap for WebSocket traffic 🔹 Monetize API and AI traffic with the Metering & Billing plugin 🔹 and more! Check out our blog to learn more about what these mean for your platform 👉🏼 https://bit.ly/4tSKHuwKong Gateway 3.14: More Control, Less Toil With Simplified Security and PoliciesKong Gateway 3.14: More Control, Less Toil With Simplified Security and Policies
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Nathan Golan reposted thisNathan Golan reposted thisIntroducing Kong Agent Gateway, a new capability in Kong AI Gateway! 📣 It extends our platform to now cover agent-to-agent (A2A) communication in addition to LLM and MCP traffic. Combined with Kong's API Management and Event Management, customers now have a single governance layer across the entire stack — APIs, events, LLM calls, MCP tool access, and A2A communication. We call this the full AI data path, and no other vendor covers it. Check out the press release to learn more: https://bit.ly/4mwkHmf Want more info or have questions? Check out the blog below 👇
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Nathan Golan reposted thisNathan Golan reposted thisMeta paused work with a $10B AI data vendor after hackers poisoned an open-source Python library called LiteLLM and walked out with four terabytes of data. So, that's bad. And the worst part? The stolen data might include the actual training methodologies that Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google paid billions to develop. Think about what that means. You can't protect your crown jewels if they're sitting inside a vendor who's connected to your three biggest competitors, all sharing the same open-source tools, all exposed by the same 40-minute window on PyPI before anyone noticed. 🎯 The attack chain here is worth understanding: hackers compromised a security scanner called Trivy, used that access to get credentials for a LiteLLM maintainer, then published two malicious package versions that lasted less than an hour before removal. Forty minutes. That's all it took. 💼 Mercor is not some sloppy startup. It's 22-year-old founders, $500M annualized revenue, and clients at the very top of the AI industry. Sophistication doesn't protect you from a poisoned dependency you never thought to audit. 🔍 The question I'd be asking right now if I were a CISO at any of these labs isn't "were we breached." It's "how many vendors in our training pipeline are running LiteLLM, and did we even know?" Most companies audit their own software. Almost nobody audits the software their vendors use to build the data they're buying. https://hubs.li/Q049HG5Q0 #Cybersecurity #AIRisk #SupplyChainSecurity spc #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #ThirdPartyRisk
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Nathan Golan reposted thisNathan Golan reposted thisMichael Field nails something I keep running into with enterprise customers — the CLI vs. MCP debate isn’t really about the protocol. It’s about who the agent is acting for. When you’re a solo dev acting on your own data, CLIs are great. But the moment agents start acting on behalf of other users across teams — with different access levels, different scopes, different compliance requirements — you need protocol-level auth delegation, not credential juggling in application code. That’s the conversation I’m having with nearly every enterprise account right now. Great piece from my colleague. Worth the read. 👇 https://lnkd.in/edNAvBBv
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Nathan Golan liked thisNathan Golan liked thisDXC Technology launches DXC OASIS for AI-era managed services DXC Technology has introduced DXC OASIS, an intelligent orchestration platform designed to transform managed services. The secure, unified layer integrates across existing IT environments, enabling organizations to streamline operations and adapt to AI-driven demands. It reimagines how managed services are delivered by combining human expertise with agentic AI, shifting from reactive support to real-time, intelligent operations across the entire technology environment and enabling greater confidence in mission-critical operations. Leveraging decades of DXC delivery expertise, validated through DXC’s Customer Zero approach and shaped through direct customer collaboration, DXC OASIS connects every system, signal, and technology decision, bringing together human judgment and agentic AI to run critical systems with greater speed, clarity, and control. #AIOps #ArtificialIntelligence #ManagedServices #ITOperations #Automation #EnterpriseTechnology #Cloud #GlobalEnterpriseConnect
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Nathan Golan liked thisNathan Golan liked thisSome truly high-impact executive meetings with our strategic partners — but this one was undeniably special! An absolute privilege to receive THE global statesman and the leader of the giant called India — a nation of 1.5 billion people and world’s 3rd largest economy! Blessed to welcome him at the airport and spend a few moments in conversation. It was a proud reminder that we are collectively helping build and power the backbone of India’s digital economy 🦍👍 Even more exciting is the transformation ahead for West Bengal. The state is now on the cusp of a true Digital Revolution — driven by innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, and global collaboration. And the diaspora will undoubtedly play a defining role in shaping that future. The best is yet to come 🇮🇳🇺🇲 #NarendraModi #India #USA #DigitalTransformation #AgenticEra #AIConnectivity #Kong #WestBengal #Changemaker
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Nathan Golan liked thisNathan Golan liked thisKong we see you 👀 Crazy activation at The AI Hot 100 Summit
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Nathan Golan liked thisNathan Golan liked thisStop doing small AI experiments at the edges; build the governance and platform needed to use AI safely in your core business. If it hasn't happened yet, one day in the near future your CFOs will start asking the important question: "Are we seeing the value from all of our AI spend?" And pressure to show that value will be even stronger when the cost per tokens - which is in large part subsidized today (think of Uber in the early days when rides were $3-4) - inevitably will reflect its real price over time. Many organizations today are deploying peripheral agents in regards to the their core business, to experiment in ways that AI can accelerate their business. But the truth is that those organization will never see the outsized outcomes that AI can bring to the table until they start using AI in their core business. A peripheral use case can never justify the enormous spend that is currently being poured in AI. And here is the chicken-egg problem: organizations know that the core business needs to be transformed with AI in order to get those outsized benefits and justify the AI spend, but their are not ready yet to deploy agents at the core because they either don't trust the non-deterministic nature of agents, they don't have the right governance and infrastructure in place to be comfortable doing that, and also while they have developed early experiments across one or more teams that specialized in AI, they haven't developed an internal platform that allows to scale those experiments from the teams into the enterprise. And sometimes, it's all of the above! So how do we deploy AI in the core business? - We need to establish concrete AI, data and agentic governance. - We need to establish a platform that allows us to manage identify for agents, their permissions, what tools and APIs they can consume, being able to observe and monitor outcomes, and so on. - We need to start transforming the core business little by little with AI and agents that are not going to put the business and the customers at risk. And here at Kong we partner with our enterprise customers to bring that: an AI platform that allows them to start showing outsized value in their core business with AI, to not only justify the AI spend, but also to create an internal platform for AI that can scale our agents and their interactions with APIs, data and LLMs in a governed way. You can learn more about our platform at https://lnkd.in/en-BndJX
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Nathan Golan liked thisNathan Golan liked thisHad a great time guest lecturing for sharp MS in Data Science students at Columbia University, on "From APIs to Agents". We explored how modern AI systems come together in the enterprise, from API gateways to MCP and agentic workloads, and the gap between academic projects and real-world industry challenges. Loved the thoughtful questions on taking these systems into production at scale. Excited to see how this talent will continue to push agentic and LLM-driven systems forward. Looking forward to more conversations like this. Thanks to Parijat Dube for the invite to join his class.
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Nathan Golan liked thisNathan Golan liked thisMexico bound! 🇲🇽 I’ll be in CDMX working with partners on their AI adoption strategies—everything from managing token spend to giving their customers real visibility into how they’re experimenting and innovating with AI. If you’re in the city and want to connect, feel free to DM me. Si estás en CDMX y quieres hablar sobre adopción de IA en la empresa, con controles de costo y protección de datos sensibles, mándame un mensaje.
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