Contents

• Introduction

• Interesting Content for the week

• Product updates/New releases

• Podcast

• FeedBack & Share

• Upcoming Conferences

Introduction

I was at the inaugural Apidays Munich conference last week. AI gateways featured in several talks, including my own. I gave an updated version of my talk “AI APIs: Taming the Wild West with AI Gateways“, and you can download a copy of the slides here.

Here are the notes a few people took from the conference:

• Naresh Jain’s notes from Emmanuel Paraskakis’ keynote.

• Marjukka Niinioja’s notes from the API Lifecyle & Architecture track on Day 1.

• Marjukka’s notes from the API Lifecyle & Architecture track on Day 1 and Day 2.

• Rotem Yohanan’s notes on Naresh Jain’s “10x DevEx” talk and demo of Specmatic’s API Genie.

• Marjukka’s round up of the “Ask us Anything API” session on the OpenAI track.

Interesting Content for the week

AI-API Consumption Governance

How we enabled Agents at Scale in the Enterprise with the Agentic AI Mesh: McKinsey’s AI arm, QuantumBlack, describes its Agentic AI Mesh Architecture - a set of patterns and practices for deploying agentic AI at scale.

Generating MCP servers from OpenAPI: Lessons from building 50+ production MCP servers: Speakeasy’s Georges Haidar discusses difficulties and best pratices in automatically generating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from existing OpenAPI documents.

API Production Governance

Thomas Bayer announced the Pre-Release edition of The API Gateway Handbook, which you can download from here. The book gives a pretty comprehensive treatment of how API gateways work. It discusses the different kinds of gateways, gateway policies, deployment, security, API keys, rate limiting, performance, and more.

Data Platforms and APIs: Tim Goodwill discusses how the integration facilities provided by data platforms do not replace API management; instead, they provide mutually supportive capabilities.

Product updates/New releases

Introducing New Zuplo Developer Portal: Zuplo has redesigned its developer portal using it’s Zudoku open-source framework.

Build Reuse into Your API Program with Konnect Dev Portal: Kong’s Konnect Dev Portal is GA.

Podcast & Videos

Building Intentional APIs: Nordic API’s Bill Doerrfeld hosts Emmanuel Paraskakis, digitalM’s John Bogard and Karl Fankhauser. They discuss how to build APIs that are consistent, discoverable, reusable, and strategically aligned to serve both internal developers and emerging agentic AI use cases.

All about Mocking, with Wiremock's Tom Akehurst: Phil Sturgeon and Tom Akehurst discuss API mocking and how has evolved from a specific, code-driven testing technique (behavioural verification in XP community) to a broader umbrella term for various "test doubles" in API development.

Feedback & Share

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Upcoming API Conferences

GraphQLConf 2025: Date: September 8th-10, 2025, Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

APIdays London: Theme: “No AI Without APIs” Conference Date: September 22nd - 24th, Location: Convene 155 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3YD

Platform Summit 2025: Date: October 13-15, Location: Stockholm, Theme: Engineer Next-Gen API Architectures Register to get your tickets.

Kong API Summit Live 2025: Join developers, leaders, and visionaries from around the world as we explore the latest innovations around APIs, microservices, and AI. Date: Oct 14 - 15, 2025, Location: New York City

API Conference Berlin: Theme: The Conference for Web APIs, API Design & Management, Date: October 20 - 22, 2025. Register to get your tickets.

API World Conference 2025: Date: Sept 3-5 Location - Santa Clara, CA, Sept 10-12 - Live Online, Register to get your tickets

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