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Kong Inc., a cloud connection startup, has released Kong Enterprise 2.7, a service connectivity platform that allows businesses to manage APIs and microservices at scale across any underlying architecture. According to GigaOm, this latest release has a 25% increase in throughput (capacity) and a 25% reduction in latency (speed) over earlier versions, which were already highly performant. Kong Enterprise 2.7, which has a quicker core runtime, reached 52,250 transactions per second (TPS) maximum throughput with a 100% success rate (up from 40,625 TPS in 2021), which is 2,886 per cent faster than Apigee X, which achieved 1,750 TPS maximum throughput with 100% success. The new release also introduces enhanced capabilities to improve security, streamline workflows, and expand event-based and real-time architectures support.
Every millisecond of latency reduces conversion rates, which can translate into a significant drop in sales. Reduced API latency leads to faster overall application performance, allowing companies to deliver a superior customer experience while reducing costs and maximising revenue potential. For example, Mercado Bitcoin, a global cryptocurrency trading platform, uses Kong Enterprise to power 40 mission-critical services with less than a millisecond response time. The company saw a 40% increase in its platform performance by significantly reducing API latency while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) by 20%.
With each new release of Kong Enterprise, Kong continues to introduce new, critical features, with a significant boost in performance over prior versions. Kong Enterprise is a best-in-class service connectivity platform that enables organisations to secure, connect, and orchestrate their APIs and services across cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premise environments. It is built on Kong's core open source technology and designed for the modern era of software development. The platform enables developer teams to easily handle millions of API calls and build scalable, microservice-driven apps that drive corporate development.
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), the UK government’s biggest public service department, adopted Kong Enterprise in 2020 to scale data access and process automation to meet the unprecedented demand for their claims services as the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown began. According to Jacqui Leggetter, integration lead for DWP Digital, “The Kong API gateway and Kong Enterprise hosted in our hybrid cloud infrastructure are supporting over 250 million real-time API calls per month and growing. Kong is key to our ongoing ambitious transformation plans and sits at the heart of our secure data sharing ecosystem across DWP and wider government.”
Additional Key Features
Kong Enterprise 2.7 offers a range of new enhancements in addition to faster performance, including simplified management capabilities, security improvements, and streamlined workflows to maximise APIOps and increase developer productivity.
Notable additional features and enhancements include:
- Ability to bulk-apply policies to APIs and developers automatically
- OpenID Connect Configuration wizard for faster authentication setup
- Support for new real-time and event-based use cases with Kafka and webhooks
“Kong is focused on delivering the technology innovations that matter to our customers – and that means API connectivity solutions that are highly performant, offer better security and more automation, and provide the ability for customers to work seamlessly across platforms and software architectures,” said Reza Shafii, VP of product at Kong Inc. “Kong Enterprise 2.7 is an important step toward Kong’s vision of powering the world’s digital connections through next-generation solutions that drive businesses forward.”
