Kong has announced the general availability of Kong Enterprise 2020, a flagship solution designed to optimize application modernization through intelligent automation and governance across the entire lifecycle of APIs and services. The new release addresses the challenges of legacy API management platforms by supporting decentralized architectures, automating workflows, and integrating CI/CD practices. It includes features such as Kong Studio for integrated service design and testing, multi-protocol support for gRPC, GraphQL, and Kafka, and the visual Service Map with Kong Brain for real-time architecture insights. Additionally, Kong Teams enhances collaboration and onboarding, while major updates to Kong Manager and the Dev Portal improve user experience and management workflows. These enhancements aim to provide organizations with comprehensive service management capabilities from pre-production to post-production across various platforms and deployment patterns.