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Ideas and patterns for shipping APIs safely—lifecycle, gateway policy, workflows, developer portal, observability, and AI agent access—without vendor lock-in.
Written for platform, security, and integration leads who run Zerq on-prem, hybrid, or cloud.
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- MCP Solves Connectivity. It Doesn't Solve Governance. Here's the Difference.
- mcp
- governance
- ai
The Model Context Protocol standardises how AI agents discover and call tools. But the protocol says nothing about who is allowed to call what, at what rate, with what audit trail. That part is still your problem.
Read article - 53% of AI agent integrations use static API keys. Here's what goes wrong — and how to fix it.
- ai
- security
- mcp
Most MCP server deployments hand AI agents long-lived static keys with no rate limits and no audit trail. Here's the security failure pattern — and the architectural fix.
Read article - Least Privilege for AI Agents: Why Every Agent Should Have Its Own Scope and Rate Limits
- security
- ai
- least-privilege
Overprivileged AI agents turn a single prompt injection into a full environment compromise. Every agent needs its own scoped credential, its own rate limits tuned to its call pattern, and a blast radius you can calculate before it becomes an incident.
Read article - The hidden add-on costs of Kong and Apigee (and what you get with Zerq instead)
- comparisons
- enterprise
- procurement
TCO isn’t only gateway license fees: analytics, observability, and audit-grade signals are often separate SKUs or integrations. How to model them—and where Zerq bundles metrics and audit in-platform.
Read article - How AI agents discover and call your APIs — a technical walkthrough with Zerq
- mcp
- ai
- api-management
From MCP initialize to tools/call: sessions, headers, Gateway MCP tools, and how requests hit the same gateway path as REST. For engineers wiring assistants and coding agents.
Read article - How a single API gateway can replace your entire middleware stack
- enterprise
- platform
- api-management
Consolidate cross-cutting concerns at the edge: auth, routing, transforms, and policy in one place—plus workflows—so you stop shipping duplicate logic in every service.
Read article - How Government Agencies Can Run APIs On-Prem or Air-Gapped Without Compromise
- government
- on-premise
- security
Government and public sector agencies cannot just adopt cloud-native API management and call it done. Data sovereignty, classified networks, and procurement constraints demand a different architecture. Here's what actually works.
Read article - From OpenAPI to a published product your partners can trust
- api-management
- lifecycle
- developer-experience
A practical path: import specs, work in draft, publish to the portal and gateway—without losing version boundaries or access control.
Read article - From Docker Compose to Kubernetes: scaling your API gateway without rewriting config
- platform
- kubernetes
- deployment
Compose for local and early environments; Kubernetes for production replicas and rolling updates. Same product semantics—shift orchestration, not your API contract model.
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