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Articles
- Shadow AI Is the New Shadow IT — And Your API Gateway Is How You Find It
- security
- ai
- shadow-ai
Shadow AI agents connect to APIs and MCP servers your security team never reviewed. How to use your API gateway to detect and inventory them.
Read article - From Partner Onboarding to Production: What a Self-Service Developer Portal Actually Needs
- developer-portal
- partners
- self-service
Most developer portals are docs sites with a credential form. The full requirements list for a portal that takes partners from first access to production.
Read article - Secrets Management in API Gateways: Why Vault Integration Should Be Non-Negotiable
- security
- secrets-management
- api-management
Gateways that store upstream credentials in their own database risk exposure via dumps, backups, and logs. Why Vault integration changes the risk model.
Read article - Retry Logic, Fallbacks, and Consistent Error Shapes — All Without Writing Code
- workflows
- reliability
- api-management
Move retry, fallback, and error handling into the gateway: configured once, applied to every service, and observable in one place.
Read article - Request/Response Transformation Between Legacy and Modern APIs Using Visual Workflows
- workflows
- api-management
- legacy
Translate XML to JSON and normalise field names at the gateway, so a legacy backend upgrade never becomes a client migration project.
Read article - The Real Cost of Running 5 Tools Where One Platform Would Do
- enterprise
- roi
- platform
License fees are the smallest cost of five API tools. The real cost: five configs, five security reviews, five disconnected audit trails, five upgrades.
Read article - Rate limits that protect upstreams—without punishing partners who did nothing wrong
- api-management
- reliability
- developer-experience
Fairness tiers, burst behavior, and gateway-level enforcement so one noisy client does not become everyone’s incident.
Read article - PSD3 is law in 2026. Your open banking API stack has a checklist to pass — does yours?
- open-banking
- compliance
- api-management
PSD3 and PSR make API performance an enforceable obligation for open banking. What changes, and what your API gateway needs to do about it.
Read article - Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection — And Your API Gateway Is the Defense
- security
- ai
- prompt-injection
Prompt injection makes agents act on attacker instructions with real credentials through real access paths. Why the API gateway is where you contain it.
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