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Field notes from the team building Apinizer.

Platform engineering, AI Gateway operations, agent governance, regulated-API rollouts, and the design choices behind every release. Pick a category below or jump straight into the latest post.

Latest

Introducing Apinizer 2026.04 — AI Gateway is here — Apr 22, 2026 · 2 min read · Releases
Multi-LLM routing on your own Kubernetes — Mar 18, 2026 · 2 min read · Engineering
How banks govern API surfaces with Apinizer — Feb 4, 2026 · 2 min read · Industry
APIops in CI/CD — when your API platform behaves like a codebase — Dec 2, 2025 · 7 min read · Engineering
Prompt firewalls — runtime safety for LLM traffic — Nov 4, 2025 · 9 min read · AI

Releases

Introducing Apinizer 2026.04 — AI Gateway is here

Apr 22, 2026 · 2 min read · Selin Demir

The same gateway that runs your REST APIs now governs every LLM, MCP server, and agent-to-agent message — under the same audit and permission model.

Tags: #ai-gateway · #release · #llm · #mcp · #a2a

Engineering

Multi-LLM routing on your own Kubernetes

Mar 18, 2026 · 2 min read · Mehmet Karaca

What it actually means to give your applications one OpenAI-compatible endpoint and route across 17 providers behind it — without writing a microservice.

Tags: #ai-gateway · #llm · #routing · #kubernetes

APIops in CI/CD — when your API platform behaves like a codebase

Dec 2, 2025 · 7 min read · Selin Demir

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.

Tags: #apiops · #ci-cd · #platform · #devops

Oct 14, 2025 · 8 min read · Mehmet Karaca

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.

Tags: #api-gateway · #soap · #grpc · #graphql · #multi-protocol

Hot deployment without dropping a request

Jul 9, 2025 · 6 min read · Mehmet Karaca

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.

Tags: #hot-deploy · #kubernetes · #runtime · #platform

The three tiers of platform permissions

Jun 24, 2025 · 6 min read · Ayşe Yıldız

System, Project, and Team — what each tier owns, where each enforces, and why this is the permission model regulated platforms keep landing on.

Tags: #permissions · #rbac · #compliance · #platform

Active-active architecture — eliminating single point of failure

May 16, 2025 · 6 min read · Serkan

What it actually takes for an API gateway to disappear from the failure list. Active-active, nodeAffinity, and geographic redundancy on Kubernetes.

Tags: #high-availability · #kubernetes · #spof · #architecture

API load testing and performance analysis: Grafana k6 vs Apache JMeter

Sep 12, 2024 · 4 min read · Apinizer Team

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.

Tags: #load-testing · #k6 · #jmeter · #api-performance · #performance-analysis

The API team mantra: APIs should solve problems, not be the problem

May 20, 2024 · 5 min read · Apinizer Team

Six principles for designing APIs developers love — and why returning 200 OK for an error is a system-wide observability bug.

Tags: #api-design · #developer-experience · #http-standards · #api-best-practices · #system-architecture

Industry

How banks govern API surfaces with Apinizer

Feb 4, 2026 · 2 min read · Ayşe Yıldız

The audit, encryption, and three-tier permission model that the regulators actually want — built into the platform, not bolted on as middleware.

Tags: #banking · #audit · #compliance · #kvkk · #bddk

AI

Prompt firewalls — runtime safety for LLM traffic

Nov 4, 2025 · 9 min read · Selin Demir

Jailbreak detection, PII redaction, injection scoring, outbound content filtering. What it takes to make LLM safety a runtime property instead of a model property.

Tags: #ai-gateway · #prompt-firewall · #safety · #compliance

The future where APIs talk to AI — API Portal × MCP

Aug 6, 2025 · 9 min read · Mustafa Halil Yıldız

Eighteen MCP tools, four categories, three phases of enterprise rollout — and a fintech onboarding story that went from two weeks to one day.

Tags: #mcp · #ai-gateway · #api-portal · #developer-experience

Strategy

Local-vendor prejudice — how we broke it, and how you can too

Sep 12, 2025 · 17 min read · Mustafa Halil Yıldız

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.

Tags: #founder · #go-to-market · #enterprise · #strategy

API management — build or buy?

Sep 8, 2025 · 6 min read · Mustafa Halil Yıldız

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.

Tags: #build-vs-buy · #api-management · #strategy

Architecture

The gateway zoo — API, Event, Kafka, AI gateways through Conway's law

Aug 6, 2025 · 6 min read · Mustafa Halil Yıldız

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.

Tags: #api-gateway · #architecture · #conways-law · #ai-gateway

Gateway zoo: API, Event, Kafka, and AI gateways through Conway's Law

Apr 5, 2025 · 7 min read · Apinizer Team

Why API Gateway scope keeps expanding into Event, Kafka, and AI gateways — and how to balance specialized tooling against organizational reality.

Tags: #api-gateway · #conway-law · #system-design · #event-driven · #architectural-patterns

Apinizer's active-active architecture: eliminating SPOF risk

Mar 18, 2025 · 5 min read · Apinizer Team

How active-active deployment removes the API gateway as a single point of failure, delivers 99.999%+ availability, and enables geographically redundant API infrastructure.

Tags: #api-gateway · #high-availability · #active-active · #spof · #kubernetes

Rate limit, throttling, and quota management: a comprehensive overview

Nov 7, 2024 · 6 min read · Apinizer Team

How Apinizer controls API traffic with distributed caching for short-term limits and persistent storage for long-term quotas — including fixed vs sliding windows.

Tags: #api-management · #rate-limiting · #quota-management · #throttling · #traffic-control

Understanding the API Gateway: an airport analogy

Apr 10, 2024 · 3 min read · Apinizer Team

How enterprises manage external communications through an intuitive airport analogy — security, capacity, routing, translation, and monitoring all under one roof.

Tags: #api-gateway · #system-design · #enterprise-architecture · #api-management · #analogy

API Gateway or the code way

Mar 26, 2024 · 7 min read · Apinizer Team

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.

Tags: #api-gateway · #web-services · #api-management · #architecture · #microservices

Explaining API and API Management to our parents

Feb 15, 2024 · 4 min read · Ertuğrul Aslan

A restaurant analogy that makes APIs, API Gateways, and API Management click for anyone — including the non-technical people in your life.

Tags: #api-management · #api-gateway · #backend-architecture · #technical-education · #api-design

Platform

The future where APIs talk to AI: Apinizer API Portal × MCP

Jul 1, 2025 · 8 min read · Apinizer Team

Eighteen MCP tools, four categories, three phases of enterprise rollout — and a fintech onboarding story that went from two weeks to one day.

Tags: #api-management · #mcp-integration · #ai-native · #developer-experience · #enterprise-automation

API Product Plan vs Rate Limit Control List (RLCL): when to use which

Aug 10, 2024 · 4 min read · Apinizer Team

API Product Plans frame the commercial model. RLCL handles technical traffic control. Two complementary tools — and how to combine them in one strategy.

Tags: #api-management · #rate-limiting · #product-strategy · #technical-controls · #apinizer

Security

No security without an API Gateway: the right order in API infrastructure

Dec 15, 2024 · 11 min read · Apinizer Team

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.

Tags: #api-security · #api-gateway · #shadow-apis · #api-inventory · #api-management

Rate Limit Control List (RLCL): targeted, flexible rate limiting

Jul 15, 2024 · 5 min read · Apinizer Team

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.

Tags: #api-security · #rate-limiting · #access-control · #api-management · #ddos-prevention

Operations

To monitor, or not to monitor — that is the question

Oct 14, 2024 · 4 min read · Apinizer Team

API monitoring matters more than testing. Here's how to combine active checks, passive listening, and traffic log analysis with the right alerting strategy.

Tags: #api-monitoring · #observability · #uptime · #alerting · #api-gateway

Apinizer × Prometheus and Grafana: a complete integration guide

Jun 25, 2024 · 3 min read · Apinizer Team

Wire Apinizer Gateway and Cache metrics into Prometheus, build Grafana dashboards, and set up alerts — full visibility for your API platform.

Tags: #api-gateway · #monitoring · #prometheus · #grafana · #metrics