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Bringing APIs and events together has always been a challenge. REST APIs give developers a familiar interface, while event brokers like Solace Broker excel at fan-out, filtering, and scalable, reliable event delivery. The tricky part? Bridging these two worlds without building a lot of custom glue. That’s exactly what the new Kong plugin for Solace upstream mediation does.

Enterprise product teams are squarely in the throes of a massive shift. New Gartner research crystalized that companies using AI tools for product management are reaping a significant 35% productivity gain and achieving a two to three-year time-to-market advantage over those who wait.

Government and defense agencies require extreme security measures to protect sensitive data like classified intelligence and military operations. Air-gapped systems, which are physically isolated from external networks, provide a robust solution by ensuring no remote access is possible. These systems are critical for deploying large language models (LLMs) safely in secure environments, enabling advanced AI capabilities like intelligence analysis and mission planning without risking data breaches.

API testing services help organizations validate API functionality, performance, security, integrations, and reliability across the software lifecycle. These services are typically delivered by QA teams, testing vendors, or automation platforms to ensure APIs work correctly in real-world environments. APIs are no longer just backend infrastructure—they are the backbone of modern digital products.

Over the past few years, we’ve watched coding velocity accelerate at an extraordinary pace. AI has completely disrupted how developers build software. Agentic tools can now generate clean code faster than ever before. While AI has turbocharged code generation, code review, and code-level testing, it’s created a massive strain on the rest of the software development lifecycle.

“API strategy” is a term prominently established in the ecosystem and heavily discussed, implemented, and followed by organizations. The term is more relevant now since API strategy has become, for the most part, AI strategy, since AI agents and services are now consuming APIs and tools to work towards business-specific goals under human tutelage. So the longstanding definition and scope of API strategy must take into account AI consumers.

The WSO2 API Platform offers an MCP Gateway that sits between MCP clients and the MCP servers they use, applying security, access control, rate limits, observation, and policy enforcement across all tool calls. Instead of requiring teams to write these controls directly within their MCP servers, the platform extends its existing API governance layer to cover MCP traffic.