Learn what an AI gateway is and why enterprises need one, then design one for production: token-aware cost controls, guardrails, resilience, compliance, and agent governance. Real-world lessons from Uber, Grab, and Cloudflare show what works. Finish hands-on with Kong AI Gateway, configuring authentication, budgets, prompt governance, load balancing, failover, and MCP tool access.

Small Language Models (SLMs) are reshaping enterprise AI by delivering targeted performance with lower cost and infrastructure demands than large models. This learning path explores what SLMs are, where they excel, how they compare to LLMs and APIs, and what it takes to deploy one, culminating in a hands-on lab.