Talk:Kong Inc.

Site link?
Err.. where is the external link to the site?

Belfry (talk) 07:56, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Marketing
I've seen a Wikipedia tag for articles that sound like marketing talk written by the companies themselves. Someone should probably apply that to this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.239.45.130 (talk) 21:20, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Relevant?
How is this company relevant? This is an unproven startup and does not sound notable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.185.141.31 (talk) 19:21, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Why was the AfD tag removed?
There still doesn't seem to be sufficient notability, no one has edited it to not sound like an ad. This is thus a candidate for deletion. 2601:644:301:15D7:979:A426:2F6:46A4 (talk) 01:39, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Proposed Changes
I work for Kong Inc. and would like to propose a few edits to this page to improve its factual accuracy. WP:SCOIC

Please change the founding date in the Kong Inc. overview box from October 30, 2007 to October 2017. Kong Inc. was founded in 2017 -- the founders started Mashape (an API marketplace) in 2009, launched an open source project called Kong later in 2015, then sold Mashape’s core API Marketplace business to RapidAPI in May 2017, and subsequently pivoted the company’s focus 100% to its new Kong business and rebranded the company to Kong Inc. in October 2017. Sources: https://sdtimes.com/apis/mashape-rebrands-kong-move-away-monolithic-applications/, https://www.forbes.com/sites/truebridge/2020/02/18/the-digital-economy-is-the-api-economy--and-kong-is-king/?sh=212f888b1988.

Please remove Galileo, Gelato and API Marketplace from the introductory sentence explaining Kong Inc.’s main product offerings (“The main products offered are…”). Galileo and Gelato are no longer offered by the company as of February 1, 2019 (source: https://konghq.com/galileo-gelato-end-of-life-announcement/), and API Marketplace was sold to RapidAPI in May 2017 when the company was still known as Mashape (sources: https://www.eweek.com/development/rapidapi-buys-mashape-hub-to-create-world-s-largest-api-marketplace, https://appdevelopermagazine.com/rapidapi-acquired-the-mashape-marketplace/). Today, Kong Inc.’s main product offerings are:

- Kong Gateway (source: https://devclass.com/2020/11/02/kong-climbs-down-the-stack-to-add-udp-to-its-api-gateway/)

- Kong Enterprise (source: https://thenewstack.io/kong-enterprise-focused-to-be-the-switzerland-of-connectivity/)

- Kong Konnect (source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/07/kong-launches-kong-konnect-its-cloud-native-connectivity-platform/?guccounter=1)

- Kong Mesh (source: https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/252490379/Service-mesh-upstarts-challenge-Istio-Linkerd)

- Kuma (sources: https://sdtimes.com/micro/kong-open-sources-universal-service-mesh-kuma/, https://sdtimes.com/cloud/kong-releases-version-1-0-of-its-universal-service-mesh-kuma-with-over-70-improvements/)

- Insomnia (source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/kong-acquires-insomnia-launches-kong-studio-for-api-development/)

Suggested change: “The main products offered are: Kong Gateway, an open source API gateway; Kong Enterprise, an API platform built on top of the open source Kong Gateway; Kong Konnect, a service connectivity platform; Kuma, an open source service mesh; Kong Mesh, an enterprise-grade service mesh built on top of the open source Kuma; and Insomnia, an open source API design and testing tool.”

Please add notable Kong Inc. developments that have occurred since 2016. The article is outdated and does not include any information about the company after 2016, including how the company, previously known as Mashape, came to be known as Kong Inc. today. Notable developments since this article was last edited include:

- After launching an open source project called Kong in 2015, Mashape secured $18 million in Series B funding in March 2017, sold its core API Marketplace business to RapidAPI in May 2017, and subsequently pivoted the company’s focus 100% to its new Kong business and rebranded the company to Kong Inc. in October 2017 (sources: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/years-after-crashing-on-travis-kalanicks-couch-this-italian-founder-just-raised-18-million-for-his-startup/, https://appdevelopermagazine.com/rapidapi-acquired-the-mashape-marketplace/, https://sdtimes.com/apis/mashape-rebrands-kong-move-away-monolithic-applications/, https://www.forbes.com/sites/truebridge/2020/02/18/the-digital-economy-is-the-api-economy--and-kong-is-king/?sh=212f888b1988).

- Kong Inc. raised an additional $43 million in Series C funding in March 2019 (sources: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/28/kong-raises-43m-series-c-for-its-api-platform/, https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/28/kong-raises-43-million-to-expand-its-api-automation-platform/).

- Kong Inc. launched a second open source project called Kuma, a universal service mesh, in September 2019 and later donated it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project in June 2020 (sources: https://sdtimes.com/micro/kong-open-sources-universal-service-mesh-kuma/, https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/kong-donates-its-kuma-control-plane-to-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation/).

- Kong Inc. acquired Insomnia, an open source API design and testing tool, in October 2019 (source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/02/kong-acquires-insomnia-launches-kong-studio-for-api-development/).

- Kong Inc. released Kong Konnect, a full-stack service connectivity platform, in October 2020 (source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/07/kong-launches-kong-konnect-its-cloud-native-connectivity-platform/?guccounter=1).

Ppyl (talk) 02:21, 4 December 2020 (UTC)


 * The details of the post 2016 “technology” events in the edit request sound promotional, and do not speak to the technology itself but to product introductions. Per WP:PROMOTION I have excluded them. I have also rewritten the history section a bit so that we can remove the {advert} banner. I’m marking all requests as ✅ Ferkijel (talk) 19:05, 29 March 2021 (UTC)