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- EngineeringMar 18, 2026
Multi-LLM routing on your own Kubernetes
What it actually means to give your applications one OpenAI-compatible endpoint and route across 17 providers behind it — without writing a microservice.
Mehmet KaracaPlatform Engineer2 min - IndustryFeb 4, 2026
How banks govern API surfaces with Apinizer
The audit, encryption, and three-tier permission model that the regulators actually want — built into the platform, not bolted on as middleware.
Ayşe YıldızCustomer Engineering2 min - EngineeringDec 2, 2025
APIops in CI/CD — when your API platform behaves like a codebase
Manifests, idempotent applies, environment promotion, and the audit trail that makes the regulator's questions easy. The shape of platform-as-code for API gateways.
Selin DemirVP Product7 min - AINov 4, 2025
Prompt firewalls — runtime safety for LLM traffic
Jailbreak detection, PII redaction, injection scoring, outbound content filtering. What it takes to make LLM safety a runtime property instead of a model property.
Selin DemirVP Product9 min - EngineeringOct 14, 2025
Multi-protocol gateway — what changes when SOAP, REST, gRPC, and GraphQL share a pipeline
Banks running WSDL alongside gRPC, ministries running GraphQL alongside SOAP. What it actually means to put every protocol on one policy pipeline — and what it doesn't.
Mehmet KaracaPlatform Engineer8 min - StrategySep 12, 2025
Local-vendor prejudice — how we broke it, and how you can too
Five years of conversations with enterprise buyers about why "local vendor" sounds like a downside. The 14 prejudices we kept hearing, and what answers actually moved them.
Mustafa Halil YıldızFounder17 min - StrategySep 8, 2025
API management — build or buy?
Three ways to handle API management as your API count grows. The honest math on each, and why most teams end up with the same answer.
Mustafa Halil YıldızFounder6 min - AIAug 6, 2025
The future where APIs talk to AI — API Portal × MCP
Eighteen MCP tools, four categories, three phases of enterprise rollout — and a fintech onboarding story that went from two weeks to one day.
Mustafa Halil YıldızFounder9 min - ArchitectureAug 6, 2025
The gateway zoo — API, Event, Kafka, AI gateways through Conway's law
Why every new gateway category — Event, Kafka, AI, Agent — keeps trying to fold itself into the API gateway. And when to let it, and when not to.
Mustafa Halil YıldızFounder6 min - EngineeringJul 9, 2025
Hot deployment without dropping a request
What it takes for a gateway to accept a new proxy, a new policy, or a new route — while traffic is in flight. The runtime contract, not the marketing line.
Mehmet KaracaPlatform Engineer6 min - PlatformJul 1, 2025
The future where APIs talk to AI: Apinizer API Portal × MCP
Eighteen MCP tools, four categories, three phases of enterprise rollout — and a fintech onboarding story that went from two weeks to one day.
Apinizer TeamPlatform8 min - EngineeringJun 24, 2025
The three tiers of platform permissions
System, Project, and Team — what each tier owns, where each enforces, and why this is the permission model regulated platforms keep landing on.
Ayşe YıldızCustomer Engineering6 min - EngineeringMay 16, 2025
Active-active architecture — eliminating single point of failure
What it actually takes for an API gateway to disappear from the failure list. Active-active, nodeAffinity, and geographic redundancy on Kubernetes.
SerkanEngineering Lead6 min - ArchitectureApr 5, 2025
Gateway zoo: API, Event, Kafka, and AI gateways through Conway's Law
Why API Gateway scope keeps expanding into Event, Kafka, and AI gateways — and how to balance specialized tooling against organizational reality.
Apinizer TeamArchitecture7 min - ArchitectureMar 18, 2025
Apinizer's active-active architecture: eliminating SPOF risk
How active-active deployment removes the API gateway as a single point of failure, delivers 99.999%+ availability, and enables geographically redundant API infrastructure.
Apinizer TeamPlatform5 min - SecurityDec 15, 2024
No security without an API Gateway: the right order in API infrastructure
T-Mobile lost 37 million customer records to a Shadow API that was invisible for 41 days. The lesson: Gateway first, Management second, Security last.
Apinizer TeamSecurity11 min - ArchitectureNov 7, 2024
Rate limit, throttling, and quota management: a comprehensive overview
How Apinizer controls API traffic with distributed caching for short-term limits and persistent storage for long-term quotas — including fixed vs sliding windows.
Apinizer TeamEngineering6 min - OperationsOct 14, 2024
To monitor, or not to monitor — that is the question
API monitoring matters more than testing. Here's how to combine active checks, passive listening, and traffic log analysis with the right alerting strategy.
Apinizer TeamOperations4 min - EngineeringSep 12, 2024
API load testing and performance analysis: Grafana k6 vs Apache JMeter
A side-by-side look at two open-source load testing tools — k6 and JMeter — with example scenarios, result metrics, and when to pick each one.
Apinizer TeamEngineering4 min - PlatformAug 10, 2024
API Product Plan vs Rate Limit Control List (RLCL): when to use which
API Product Plans frame the commercial model. RLCL handles technical traffic control. Two complementary tools — and how to combine them in one strategy.
Apinizer TeamPlatform4 min - SecurityJul 15, 2024
Rate Limit Control List (RLCL): targeted, flexible rate limiting
Apinizer's RLCL takes inspiration from Access Control Lists and brings list-based, regex-supported rate limiting — so you can set different limits per user, IP, or partner.
Apinizer TeamPlatform5 min - OperationsJun 25, 2024
Apinizer × Prometheus and Grafana: a complete integration guide
Wire Apinizer Gateway and Cache metrics into Prometheus, build Grafana dashboards, and set up alerts — full visibility for your API platform.
Apinizer TeamOperations3 min - EngineeringMay 20, 2024
The API team mantra: APIs should solve problems, not be the problem
Six principles for designing APIs developers love — and why returning 200 OK for an error is a system-wide observability bug.
Apinizer TeamEngineering5 min - ArchitectureApr 10, 2024
Understanding the API Gateway: an airport analogy
How enterprises manage external communications through an intuitive airport analogy — security, capacity, routing, translation, and monitoring all under one roof.
Apinizer TeamArchitecture3 min - ArchitectureMar 26, 2024
API Gateway or the code way
Why API Gateways solve real Web Service management problems — from authentication and security to load balancing — and why solving every concern in code stops scaling.
Apinizer TeamPlatform7 min - ArchitectureFeb 15, 2024
Explaining API and API Management to our parents
A restaurant analogy that makes APIs, API Gateways, and API Management click for anyone — including the non-technical people in your life.
Ertuğrul AslanCo-Founder & Developer4 min
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