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Articles
- Why Apigee, MuleSoft, and AWS API Gateway fall short on full platform control
- comparisons
- enterprise
- architecture
Full platform control means one deployable surface for gateway, portal, workflows, partner boundaries, metrics, and AI—not only a managed proxy. How three common stacks map to that bar.
Read article - API Tool Sprawl Is a Compliance Problem, Not Just an Ops Problem
- compliance
- governance
- api-management
Most teams think of API tool sprawl as an operational headache — too many dashboards, too many configs. But when your API estate is spread across five tools, your compliance posture has a much bigger problem than ops overhead.
Read article - 28 million secrets leaked on GitHub in 2025. Yours might be next — here's the gateway fix.
- security
- api-management
- secrets-management
Hardcoded API credentials, upstream keys in config files, and shared tokens with no rotation cycle are the leading cause of API breaches. Here's how a gateway-first approach eliminates the risk.
Read article - API inventory is the first step to governance—especially when no one owns the full map
- api-management
- security
- governance
Undocumented and forgotten endpoints are a structural risk. Here is how teams move from sprawl to a catalog you can enforce at the edge.
Read article - API gateway vs. AI gateway: why you shouldn't run two separate things
- platform
- api-management
- ai
A second gateway for AI traffic doubles policy, keys, and logs. Route assistants through the same edge as REST—same auth, limits, and audit—instead of parallel stacks.
Read article - Your API gateway is probably logging the wrong things. Here's what your compliance team actually needs.
- observability
- compliance
- api-management
Most teams log API requests for debugging. Compliance teams need something different — a filterable audit trail that can answer 'who accessed what, when' on demand. Here's the gap, and how to close it.
Read article - API Compliance for Healthcare: Data Residency, Audit Logs, and Role-Based Access
- healthcare
- hipaa
- compliance
Healthcare APIs carry PHI. That means HIPAA audit requirements, strict data residency rules, and role-based access that goes beyond 'authenticated or not'. Here's what your API gateway layer needs to get right.
Read article - No internet. No cloud. No problem: deploying an API gateway in an air-gapped environment.
- deployment
- security
- government
Government, defence, and regulated healthcare organisations need API gateways that operate with zero outbound connectivity. Here's what that actually requires — and where most cloud-first gateways fail.
Read article - Air-gapped AI: how to run LLMs in secure environments without sacrificing control
- ai
- security
- deployment
Offline networks need APIs, audit, and inference inside the boundary—not shadow SaaS. Separate data plane, model custody, and gateway enforcement so control stays provable.
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