33 posts tagged with "API Gateway"

Migrating an API gateway is one of the most critical infrastructure changes an organization can make. Done poorly, it causes downtime, broken integrations, and security gaps. Done right, it's invisible to consumers while unlocking new capabilities.

This 15-step checklist ensures zero downtime and zero data loss during your API gateway migration, whether you're moving from webMethods, Kong, Apigee, DataPower, MuleSoft, Oracle OAM, or any other platform.

Proxy throughput benchmarks tell you how fast a gateway can forward HTTP requests. They tell you nothing about whether that gateway can serve AI agents, enforce guardrails on tool calls, or govern autonomous sessions. We built a new benchmark that measures what actually matters.

Migrating from Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway™ to an open-source alternative is a structured process that can be completed in 4-6 months using a phased, zero-downtime approach. This guide covers feature mapping, a five-phase migration roadmap, and practical guidance on translating Layer7's assertion-based policy model to modern open-source equivalents.

Running an API gateway in production requires more than deploying with default settings. An insecure gateway exposes every backend service to attack, leaks sensitive data, and creates compliance nightmares. This 10-step security hardening checklist covers the critical controls you need before production deployment. Each step includes concrete configuration examples and verification commands.

Kong and STOA both support the Model Context Protocol, but they approach it from opposite directions. Kong added MCP via plugins on its proven Nginx/Lua stack. STOA built MCP into the gateway core from day one. This article compares the two specifically on MCP capabilities — tool discovery, transport, authentication, governance, and agent workflow support — so you can choose the right MCP gateway for your AI agent architecture.

Kubernetes-native API gateway patterns have evolved from simple Ingress controllers to sophisticated multi-mode architectures that support AI agents, service mesh integration, and GitOps workflows. This guide covers the four essential patterns — Ingress Controller, Gateway API, sidecar gateway, and MCP gateway — with architecture diagrams, implementation examples, and a decision framework for choosing the right pattern for your use case.

10 practical security steps that take less than a day and prevent 95% of API incidents. No enterprise budget, no complex tooling — just engineering discipline. Covers secrets, rate limiting, CORS, auth, TLS, logging, and dependency management.

You're a freelancer. You shipped an API for a client. It works. Tests pass. Invoice sent.

Six months later, the client calls: someone scraped their entire user database through your API. No rate limiting. No input validation. Default CORS headers. The API key was in the frontend JavaScript.

This happens more often than anyone admits. And it's almost always preventable with a simple checklist. This is part of our open-source API management philosophy: security should be accessible to everyone, not just enterprises.

Migrating from Axway API Gateway to an open-source alternative is a structured process that can be completed in 4-6 months using a phased, zero-downtime approach. This guide provides a feature mapping, migration roadmap, and practical advice for enterprise teams evaluating their options.

Every REST API endpoint can become an MCP tool that AI agents discover and invoke automatically. The conversion is a mapping exercise: your OpenAPI spec already contains the tool name, description, parameters, and endpoint URL that MCP needs. This guide walks through the process from a single endpoint to bulk automation using ToolSet CRDs.

AI agents need a secure, standardized way to access your APIs. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides that bridge, and STOA Platform makes it trivial to deploy. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to set up a production-ready MCP gateway using Docker Compose in under 10 minutes.

New to MCP gateways? Start with our comprehensive guide: What is an MCP Gateway? to understand the architecture and security model before deploying.

By the end of this guide, you'll have a running gateway that exposes your existing REST APIs to AI agents like Claude, connects to authentication, and enforces runtime policies.