Kong Gateway 3.3 Open Source release introduces significant enhancements to its API gateway, emphasizing increased performance, reliability, and observability. This version features the introduction of an OpenAPI Spec for the Kong admin API, promoting transparency and encouraging creative third-party development. It also introduces configurable queuing behavior for tracing, metrics, and logging plugins, allowing operators to manage memory consumption effectively and improve gateway performance. Additionally, the release includes a readiness probe for Kubernetes users to ensure traffic is only received upon valid configuration, as well as improvements to the OpenTelemetry plugin for enhanced API call visibility and span accuracy. These updates underscore Kong's commitment to providing a top-tier API gateway experience, with further technical insights to be shared in an upcoming blog post.