Kong’s biggest news today is that its acquired Floating Keyboard Software, which does business as Insomnia and offers a popular open source API testing platform of the same name.

The announcement was made at API Summit 2023, the company's annual conference focusing on API innovation. A standout feature in this release is Insomnia AI, which revolutionizes API testing.

Within the Insomnia Designer UI, users can select Kong Plugins for capabilities such as authentication or rate-limiting to govern their API’s behaviour and input it directly into their code.

Kong has announced a new managed service for running Kong Gateways so developers don’t have to worry about the underlying infrastructure.