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- The EU AI Act Deadline Is Here — What It Means for Your API and AI Infrastructure
- compliance
- eu-ai-act
- governance
The EU AI Act's August 2026 obligations for high-risk AI systems require technical measures your API layer is directly responsible for: audit logs, access controls, human oversight hooks, and transparency records. Here is what compliance looks like at the network layer.
Read article - From Docker Compose to Multi-Replica Kubernetes: Scaling Zerq Without Rewriting Anything
- architecture
- kubernetes
- docker
Docker Compose for development. Kubernetes for production with multi-replica scaling, rolling updates, and HA data stores. The gateway config, policies, and API products stay identical — only the orchestration layer changes. Here is the concrete path.
Read article - Design gateway workflows without shipping another microservice
- workflows
- platform
- operations
Use visual workflows for routing, branching, and responses at the edge—so policy changes don’t wait on a backend deploy cycle.
Read article - How to connect Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT to your enterprise APIs — without a security incident
- ai
- mcp
- developer-experience
MCP makes it easy to give AI tools access to your APIs. It also makes it easy to give them too much access, with no audit trail and no rate limits. Here's how to do it right.
Read article - Your Config and Audit Data Should Never Leave Your Perimeter — Here's How Zerq Enforces That
- architecture
- compliance
- data-residency
Config and audit data stay in your MongoDB instance and your perimeter — no requirement to send sensitive data to third-party control planes. Here is what that means for compliance, data residency, and what actually gets stored where.
Read article - Certificate Rotation, Vault Integration, and Zero Secrets in Config — A Security Checklist for API Platforms
- security
- certificates
- vault
A practical operational checklist covering every credential surface in an API gateway platform: mTLS certificate lifecycle, upstream TLS pinning, MongoDB and Redis credential rotation, client credential rotation with grace periods, Vault dynamic secrets, and removing static secrets from environment variables entirely.
Read article - The Case for Air-Gapped API Gateways in Defence and Government
- government
- security
- on-premise
Air-gapped API gateways are no longer a niche requirement — they are becoming procurement policy in defence and government. Here is the strategic case, the threat model that justifies it, and the procurement language that ensures vendors actually deliver it.
Read article - How to Do Canary Deployments at the API Layer Without Touching Your Backend Code
- workflows
- deployment
- api-management
Most canary deployment stories are about infrastructure. This one is about shipping a new backend version while the API layer handles the routing, rollback, and observation — and your backend team never touches a load balancer config.
Read article - Canary-release your API with a workflow config change — no Kubernetes required
- api-management
- workflows
- deployment
Most canary deployment guides assume Kubernetes and a service mesh. Here's how to do percentage-based API traffic splitting with a workflow branch — no mesh, no kubectl, no sprint-long infrastructure project.
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