The 5 Pillars of an Agentic AI Developer Platform for Enterprise Scale
Blog post from Kong
The emergence of the agentic era in AI is highlighting significant gaps in enterprise infrastructure, as AI agents transition from experimental to widely adopted in organizations. These agents are now autonomously making decisions, orchestrating workflows, and interacting with services in real time, but existing infrastructures, which are fragmented and reliant on manual processes, are ill-suited to support this shift. A new comprehensive developer platform is needed, one that addresses the unique demands of agentic AI by treating AI workloads as integral components alongside traditional APIs and architectures. This platform is structured around five essential pillars: Build, Run, Discover, Govern, and Monetize. These pillars ensure that developers can build AI applications with reduced friction, run them reliably, discover and connect to enterprise capabilities, govern them securely, and manage costs effectively. Unlike traditional API gateways, this infrastructure must accommodate the complex, stateful interactions of AI agents, offering features like semantic caching and intelligent routing to enhance efficiency and control costs. The platform not only facilitates development and deployment but also integrates governance and monetization strategies to sustain growth and innovation in the agentic era.