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Kong Inc.
Company blog · konghq.com/blogprogrammingweb
Kong Inc. is the company blog at konghq.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2017, 69 different Hacker News readers have linked it 123 times, most often “Kong 1.0 Announced”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kong's blog for API gateway material, such as rate-limiter design, GraphQL authorization with Kong, and the API mandate post; many comments are job ads or product mentions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
From APIs to AI, Kong is the fabric of modern connectivity. Centralize LLM access, automate API workflows, and secure your digital ecosystem at scale.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-10-02
- /blog/enterprise/api-mandate4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-28
- Kong 1.0 Announced4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-09-18
- /careers/3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-11-05
- New Insomnia 9.0 version available3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-24
- Bringing V8 into WasmX3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-23
- /kong/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-10
- The GA of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-17
- Highly Available Microservices with Health Checks and Circuit Breakers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-27
- Kong Acquires Insomnia – open-source REST client provider2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-03
What Hacker News says?
Kong Inc | San Francisco, CA | Full Stack Engineer | https://konghq.com/ We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services. Open Roles: - Senior Full Stack Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/kong/13f58fac-1bd3-401b-95c1-cc48bfdb9...…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm as a story · 196 points
HN discussionthe famous API mandate comes to mind [0] [0] https://konghq.com/blog/enterprise/api-mandate
Comment linking /blog/enterprise/api-mandate
on “Redesigning source control at Anthropic”Submitted Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh as a story · 150 points
HN discussionKong Inc. - San Francisco - Fulltime - https://konghq.com/jobs/ SeriesB stage: A16Z, Index Ventures, Jeff Bezos, CRV, NEA. Kong Inc., the microservices API company. We’ve built one of the most popular pieces of open source software in the world (Kong API Gateway) and grown a large and active developer community. We’re looking for a few great people who want to be part of a fun, highly-collaborative team.
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Kubernetes Ingress Controller for Kong as a story · 78 points
HN discussionKong Inc | https://konghq.com/ | San Francisco | Full Time We are the company behind Kong, the most widely adopted open-source API gateway. We have a world-class Enterprise platform and our mission is to facilitate a new revolution in software production by serving as the backbone of the distribution and consumption of data and services through APIs. Our vision is to enable developers to build more and manage less.…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Kong Raises $43M in Series C Funding as a story · 53 points
HN discussionKong, Inc. | Full-time engineering, data scientist, and technical support roles | San Francisco California, USA | REMOTE and/or ONSITE | At Kong, we are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services. We are passionate about solving…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Kong 1.1 Released with Declarative Configuration and DB-Less Mode as a story · 21 points
HN discussionKong, Inc. | Full-time engineering, data scientist, and technical support roles | San Francisco California, USA | REMOTE and/or ONSITE | At Kong, we are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today’s developers build tomorrow’s technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services. We are passionate about solving…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted OpenMeter (YC W23) Acquired by Kong as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI think that is by design https://konghq.com/blog/enterprise/api-mandate
Comment linking /blog/enterprise/api-mandate
on “AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong”Submitted Kuma Donated to CNCF as a story · 17 points
HN discussionKong | InfoSec Tech Lead (and lots of others) | Remote (US timezones) | Full-time Kong( https://konghq.com ) creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. We have had an on-prem OSS and enterprise product known Kong Gateway that is an API gateway. We recently launched our first SaaS offering…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted The GA of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways as a story · 16 points
HN discussionUrl changed from https://konghq.com/blog/introducing-insomnia-designer-an-ope... , which points to this, which was also the URL in a duplicate thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23021368 .
Comment linking /blog/introducing-insomnia-designer-an-open-source-collaborative-editor-for-api-design/
on “Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design”Submitted We Got a 12% Increase in RPS and a 37% Drop in Latency as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI'm assuming this is unrelated to the Kong API Gateway https://konghq.com/kong/
Comment linking /kong/
on “Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency”Submitted Show HN: Multi-Cluster and Multi-Cloud Service Meshes with CNCF's Kuma and Envoy as a story · 12 points
HN discussionKong ( https://konghq.com ) | Gateway Senior Engineer | REMOTE Europe | Full-time The Kong Gateway is an API Management solution, which serves as a foundation for many other solutions by the company. The business model is open-core: an Open Source solution exists ( https://github.com/kong/kong ), and there's an Enterprise version with more features and dedicated support. The tech stack is a modified Openresty with o…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Submitted Kong Raises $100M at $1.4B Valuation to Accelerate Cloud Connectivity as a story · 11 points
HN discussionJust a side note: Insomnia was recently acquired by Kong (the API gateway): https://konghq.com/blog/kong-acquires-insomnia/
Comment linking /blog/kong-acquires-insomnia/
on “Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman”Submitted The Difference Between API Gateways and Service Mesh as a story · 11 points
HN discussionMarco here, CTO at Kong [1]. It seems like what you are trying to implement would be straightforward in a Kong plugin, may I understand what limitations/problems did you run into? [1] https://konghq.com/
Comment linking /
on “Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1”Submitted Kong 1.3 Released as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI have been using Kong since 2016 on various APIs and I have been impressed by the continuous increase of performance after every release. I wish upgrades were easier but I know they are working on it (the "migrations" between each major version), but overall it's a fast and pluggable layer for any API inside or outside the firewall, especially if you are running containers. On this note for those of you who haven't…
Comment linking /blog/kong-alpine-docker/
on “How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm”Submitted Kong Brain and Kong Immunity Released as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWell, I have not "switched". For now I am just learning (at a very slow pace). My current job is not in ruby any more, now I do Lua - I'm a core dev at Kong - https://konghq.com/ . It's much lower-level than ruby, but still not as low as you can go with rust.
Comment linking /
on “Still in love with Rust”Submitted Kong Launches AI/ML Features to Automate Microservices Management at Scale as a story · 10 points
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