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• Interesting Content for the Week

• Product Updates/New Releases

• FeedBack & Share

• Upcoming Conferences

Interesting Content for the Week

Runtime AI Governance

Introducing the MCP Registry : The MCP blog announces the public preview of the MCP Registry, an open catalogue and API for publicly available MCP servers.

 When Is MCP Actually Worth It?: Bill Doerrfeld explores the emerging role of MCPs within the DevOps and AI engineering landscapes. The author posits that while the initial investment and adjustment to an MCP may be substantial, the long-term benefits can be considerable.

Using Evals to Test Programmable AI: Bruno Pedro argues that 'evals', a term for single tests used to evaluate AI outputs, are becoming an essential part of the AI development workflow, akin to unit tests in traditional software engineering. Given the non-deterministic and often opaque nature of AI models, conventional testing methods are insufficient.

Why Your Legacy APIs Are a Roadblock for AI Agents: Saqib Jan discusses that legacy APIs, originally crafted for human developers, pose a significant impediment to the effective functioning of autonomous AI agents.

Building a Local MCP-Powered RAG That Can Talk to 200+ Data Sources: This article posits that demonstrates and MCP chat application that can talk to multiple data sources.

Playbook: Enhancing your APIs to support Agentic AI consumption with the ignite Platform: The playbook outlines how to prepare APIs for consumption by AI agents. It highlights that traditional APIs, which were built for human developers, require enhancements to be suitable for AI.

Splunk preps OpenLLMetry tie-ins for deeper AI monitoring: Beth Pariseau discusses Splunk's plans to integrate with OpenLLMetry, an open-source extension of OpenTelemetry designed to provide deep visibility into AI systems. This collaboration aims to help businesses monitor and debug the behaviour of LLM applications by providing comprehensive metrics and logs.

The Missing Layer in AI Infrastructure: Aggregating Agentic Traffic: Eyal Solomon and Srini Penchikala discuss the need for a new infrastructure layer, the AI Gateway, to manage outbound traffic from autonomous AI agents. Unlike traditional gateways that handle inbound requests, the AI Gateway's purpose is to provide oversight for agentic traffic, which can lead to unpredictable costs and security vulnerabilities.

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API Management as a Central Security Hub: Veena Rajarathna posits that a single security solution is insufficient for protecting an API ecosystem. Instead, it advocates for a robust, multi-layered security strategy with a powerful API management platform at its core.

Your APIs Are Costing More Than You Think: Saqib Jan identifies a significant "insight-to-action gap" in most organisations, where a considerable delay between analysing cost data and implementing corrective measures renders the initial insights obsolete.

Standards Evangelisation Isn't Optional: Matthew Reinbold discusses the importance of effectively communicating and defending API standards within an organisation. The author argues that simply creating a technically sound standard is not enough; the real challenge is convincing others of its value and getting their buy-in.

Can a Mock Server be an API Sandbox?: Bruno Pedro explains the differences and similarities between mock servers and API sandboxes, explaining that while they are often used interchangeably, they serve distinct purposes.

Product updates / New releases

Postman’s August 2023 product updates includes support for multi-file API definitions: The main updates are new multi-file definition support in Spec Hub for OpenAPI 3.0, a more robust Jira integration for enterprise bug reporting, and enhanced collaboration features for Postman Notebooks with comments and reactions.

Introducing Gram: Build MCP servers that perform: Sagar Batchu introduces Gram, an open-source platform designed to help developers create effective Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for AI agents.

Apitally launches correlated application logs : The Apitally blog announces a new feature that allows users to capture and correlate application logs with API requests.

Openapi-format Playground: thim81/openapi-format, a tool for formatting, filtering and overlaying OpenAPI documents, has a visual UI play ground for WYSIWYG formatting.

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