Kong adds new AI-powered tools to ease API management - SiliconANGLE

Application programming interface management company Kong Inc. today updated its platform with new artificial intelligence- and machine learning-powered tools designed to help automate the management of API lifecycles. The new tools, Kong Brain and Kong Immunity, will be integrated into the Kong Enterprise API platform, which serves as a foundation for developers looking to build a cloud-native, microservices-based information technology architecture. Kong, which has raised $26 million from prominent investors that include Andreessen Horowitz LLC, Charles River Ventures LLC and Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, is one of several companies that are attempting to cash in on the raging popularity of APIs, which allow applications to talk to each other. Kong's API management platform works by exposing services and legacy applications as APIs and also helps to scale up and secure those interfaces as developers rebuild apps on a microservices-based architecture.