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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.
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Articles
- 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.
Read article - 40% of Enterprise Apps Will Have AI Agents by End of 2026 — Is Your API Layer Ready?
- ai
- api-management
- governance
Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will be integrated with task-specific AI agents by end of 2026, up from under 5% today. That is not a gradual rollout. It is a step change in API traffic patterns, credential volume, and governance surface.
Read article - Azure API for FHIR retires September 2026. What healthcare teams need to know about their gateway stack.
- healthcare
- fhir
- compliance
Azure API for FHIR is being retired on September 30, 2026. For healthcare teams migrating to Azure Health Data Services or a self-hosted FHIR server, now is the time to evaluate what your API gateway layer actually needs to do.
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