Kong

Kong Inc. is a private software company based in San Francisco, California, with a presence in over 25 countries. Founded in October 2017 by Augusto Marietti, Kong specializes in open-source platforms and cloud services for managing, monitoring, and scaling application programming interfaces (APIs) and microservices. The company offers a range of products centered around API management and service connectivity. This includes Kong Gateway, an open-source API gateway; Kong Enterprise, a commercial platform with enhanced features; Kong Konnect, which facilitates secure communication between services; and Kuma, an open-source service mesh. Additionally, Kong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh tailored for large-scale deployments, and Insomnia is an open-source tool for API design and testing. Kong serves developers, enterprises, and organizations that need robust API management and microservices infrastructure. The company focuses on providing cloud connectivity solutions that enable secure and efficient API and service mesh deployments globally.