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39 articles · API Gateway

Mar 18, 2026

API Gateway for CI/CD and GitOps: Automating API Lifecycle with Infrastructure as Code

Learn how to manage API gateway configuration with GitOps and CI/CD. Explore gateway-as-code patterns, automated testing, and deployment strategies for modern API lifecycle management.

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Mar 16, 2026

OpenAPI-First API Gateway: Why Spec-Driven API Management Matters

Learn what an OpenAPI-first API gateway is, why spec-driven API management reduces drift and errors, and how it compares to plugin-based OpenAPI support in Kong, Tyk, AWS API Gateway, and Apigee.

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Mar 16, 2026

Managed vs Self-Hosted API Gateway: Architecture, Cost, and Operations Decision Framework

Compare managed, self-hosted, and edge-native API gateways across architecture, TCO, and operations to find the right deployment model for your team.

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Mar 16, 2026

gRPC API Gateway: Protocol Translation, Load Balancing, and Observability

Learn how API gateways handle gRPC traffic — from protocol translation and load balancing to authentication, observability, and gRPC-Web support.

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Mar 16, 2026

API Gateway Resilience and Fault Tolerance: Circuit Breakers, Retries, and Graceful Degradation

Learn how to implement resilience patterns like circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, and graceful degradation at the API gateway layer to protect your services from cascading failures.

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Mar 13, 2026

EU AI Act Compliance for API Teams: How Your API Gateway Helps Meet the August 2026 Deadline

Learn how API gateways help meet EU AI Act requirements for logging, access control, and audit trails before the August 2026 high-risk deadline.

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Mar 12, 2026

API Gateway for Multi-Tenant SaaS: Tenant Isolation, Rate Limiting, and Key Management

Learn how to build a multi-tenant API gateway with per-tenant API keys, dynamic rate limiting, and tenant isolation for your SaaS platform.

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Mar 12, 2026

API Gateway for GraphQL: Federation, Proxying, and Best Practices

Learn how API gateways handle GraphQL APIs — from proxying and federation to rate limiting, security, and best practices for production.

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Mar 12, 2026

What Is the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol? A Guide for API Teams

Learn how Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol enables AI agent interoperability, how it complements MCP, and what API gateway teams need to know.

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Mar 8, 2026

Token-Based Rate Limiting: How to Manage AI Agent API Traffic in 2026

Learn why traditional request-based rate limiting fails for AI agents and how to implement token-based rate limiting strategies with practical examples.

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Mar 8, 2026

API Gateway Traffic Management: Routing, Load Balancing, and Canary Releases

Learn how API gateways handle traffic management including request routing, load balancing strategies, canary deployments, and URL rewriting for zero-downtime releases.

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Mar 8, 2026

API Gateway Patterns: BFF, Composition, Offloading, and Gateway Routing

Learn the most important API gateway architecture patterns — BFF, API composition, gateway offloading, routing, transformation, and more — with practical examples.

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Mar 8, 2026

API Gateway Caching: Strategies, Patterns, and Best Practices

Learn how API gateway caching reduces latency, cuts backend load, and scales your APIs with strategies for cache invalidation, edge caching, and more.

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Mar 4, 2026

What Is an API Gateway? The Complete Guide

Learn what an API gateway is, how it works, key features like authentication and rate limiting, architecture patterns, and how to choose the right one.

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Mar 1, 2026

Edge-Native API Gateway Architecture: Benefits, Patterns, and Use Cases

Learn what edge-native API gateways are, how they differ from cloud-region gateways, and why they deliver lower latency, better security, and global scale.

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Feb 28, 2026

Zuplo vs Postman: API Gateway vs API Development Platform — What's the Difference?

Zuplo vs Postman — understand the difference between an API gateway and an API development platform, when to use each, and how they work together.

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Feb 28, 2026

Migrating from Self-Hosted to Managed API Gateway: A Complete Guide

A practical guide to migrating from self-hosted API gateways like NGINX, Traefik, or Envoy to a managed gateway — covering planning, config mapping, and zero-downtime strategies.

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Feb 26, 2026

CI/CD for API Gateways: Pipeline Templates and Multi-Environment Deployment

Set up CI/CD pipelines for your API gateway with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI templates, multi-environment deployment, branch previews, and rollback strategies.

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Jun 27, 2025

Google Cloud API Gateway: Features and Implementation

Learn about Google Cloud API Gateway, its features and how to implement.

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Jun 26, 2025

Istio vs Envoy vs Zuplo: Service Mesh and API Gateway Comparison

Compare Istio, Envoy, and Zuplo for service mesh and API gateway needs, including developer experience, scalability, and cost.

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May 30, 2025

Choosing an API Gateway: Zuplo vs Kong vs Traefik vs Tyk

Compare the top API Gateways to pick the right one for your needs.

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May 22, 2025

Istio vs Linkerd: What’s the Best Service Mesh + API Gateway?

Comparing Istio vs Linkerd: Find out which service mesh is best for your API.

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May 15, 2025

Deploying API Gateways in Multicloud Environments

Master multicloud API gateways with scalable, secure deployment strategies.

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May 8, 2025

API Gateways vs Load Balancers: Navigating the Key Differences

When to use API gateways, load balancers, or both.

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May 1, 2025

API Gateway Throttling vs WAF DDOS Protection

A guide to the advantages of API Gateways over WAFs that goes beyond DDOS Prevention Rate Limiting (keeping the bad guys out) vs. API Gateway Quota Management (keeping the good guys well behaved).

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Apr 30, 2025

Envoy as Your API Gateway: An Implementation Guide

Simplify your API management with Envoy’s dynamic routing.

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Apr 28, 2025

How to Create a Proxy in MuleSoft: A Step-By-Step Guide

Master MuleSoft API proxies for security and speed.

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Apr 9, 2025

Why API Gateways Are Key to Managing Complex Ecosystems

Explore how to master complex APIs with gateways for secure management.

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Apr 4, 2025

Connecting MCP Servers to an API Gateway

Learn how to connect your MCP server to a production-ready API via Zuplo, a powerful API gateway that adds security, observability, and scalability.

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Mar 20, 2025

Multicloud vs Traditional Gateways: Modern API Management

Multicloud vs traditional gateways: which is better for modern API management?

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Mar 6, 2025

10 Game-Changing Strategies to Supercharge Your API Gateway Performance

10 powerful strategies to optimize your API Gateway performance, reduce latency, and enhance system responsiveness.

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Mar 6, 2025

How API Developers Can Use Edge Computing to Optimize API Performance

Learn how edge computing can boost API performance and user experience.

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Feb 27, 2025

Defending Your API: Essential Strategies Against Brute Force Attacks

Discover the key strategies to defend your APIs against brute force attacks and protect your data.

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Feb 21, 2025

Mastering API Throughput: 8 Key Strategies for Optimal Performance

Eight key strategies to optimize API throughput, improve performance, and enhance user satisfaction by addressing common bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

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Jan 30, 2025

How to Increase API Performance

Optimize and increase your API performance with tested strategies for caching, payload reduction, rate limiting, and more.

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Jan 22, 2025

6 Must-Have Features of an API Gateway

Modern API gateways in 2025 need to have caching, rate limiting, circuit breaking, local development, multi-protocol support, and realtime monitoring.

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Dec 16, 2024

Why a Hosted API Gateway Is Better Than Building Your Own

Learn why using an open source or in-house API gateway may not be the right decision for your company when accounting for cost, security, customization, and maintenance.

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Dec 16, 2024

API Gateway Hosting Options

An API gateway is a service that acts as an intermediary between clients API requests and your APIs/microservices. Hosting options include: Fully-Hosted (managed by the gateway provider), Self-Hosted (managed and deployed by you), or Hybrid (combination of both).

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May 24, 2024

Accelerating Developer Productivity with Federated Gateways

Learn how federated gateways from Zuplo allow teams to control their own gateways, enabling faster, independent releases.

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