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Issue #74

I recently published a podcast episode, APIs as Business Capabilities, where I hosted Daniel Luebke, CEO of Digital Solutions Architecture. Daniel is co-author of Patterns for API Design, published by Addison-Wesley and part of the Vaughn Vernon Signature Series. I enjoyed discussing with Daniel on API design patterns, APIs as business capabilities, and the role of training, workshops and governance in API success.

Catch the full podcast on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. And if you are not a subscriber to the channel yet, you should be!

I have spoken with a few companies whose approach to their developer portals is to “make it like Stripe“. As a general mandate, that’s not one I would recommend. Not because Stripe isn’t great – they are well regarded in industry as the gold standard on API dev experience – but because it is not a principle and outcome driven approach. ‘Make it like Stripe’ is not what you really want. It is good to find this UX post from a while ago that agrees with me. And in my IGT-API framework, I use a more structured approach to developer and agentic experience, and the API platform. User centricity is the key, not imitating form. As the post says:

Lunar.dev’s Eyal Solomon writes about MCP secret management best practices, and how Lunar’s MCPX gateway handles it.

Speaker of Lunar, Boomi announced it’s intent to acquire Lunar.dev for its AI and MCP gateway capabilities.

Developers using Claude Code to access Anthropic models in Microsoft Foundry, can run the risk of AI key sprawl, lack of rate presents the problem of AI key sprawl and credential leakage, runaway costs, and poor observability of AI API calls. Murali Kumanduri discusses a pattern for using an AI gateway (in this case, Microsoft APIM) between Claude Code and LLM services (in Microsoft Foundry), to provide per-developer authentication, rate limiting, and cost tracking.

Kong Ascent is an AI-assisted, human-in-the-loop migration offering from Kong Professional Services, to assist migrating from ‘legacy platforms’ to Kong Connect. Here is a PR message about the launch, and below is a screenshot from the Kong website explaining how Ascent works.

Lin Sun (Solo.io) discusses some of the design motivations behind AgentGateway, the open source AI/API gateway from Solo.io. I like these infrastructure questions she raises in the post about agentic tool access:

Vibecoding a dev portal is certainly doable. But as Mintlify’s Han Wang explains, building a developer documentation platform involves building several other products - self-updating docs, search, authentication, a visual editor, CMS, MCP servers, AI analytics, CLI, and more. And each of these is a product in its own right. As she concludes:

Related to Han Wang’s post is this post my Michael Price about build vs buy decisions. He identifies key costs to think about (direct costs, engineering time, and burnout) and a 10-question checklist to guide decision-making.

The Arazzo API workflow specification now supports AsyncAPI for asynchronous and event-driven APIs. That means it can declaratively describe an API workflow that spans synchronous and asynchronous APIs. They also mention that GrpahQL, MCP and actor-in-loop support, are on the roadmap.

Selvaraaju Murugesan provides a good guide on when and how technical writers can use MCP servers and Skills to support their writing.

When building integrations with AI coding tools, agents can generate code that looks right, but uses the wrong endpoint, calls endpoints in the wrong sequence, or misses entire API products. To address this, Twilio has introduced a new MCP Server and Agent Skills package. The MCP server exposes two endpoints: twilio__search, which searches Twilio’s APIs and docs, and twilio__retrieve, which fetches the specification of any operation.

Jentic has launched its free API AI Readiness CLI on Product Hunt. You can try out the project from the GitHub repo.

This expert panel at WSO2 NA included Mohsin Naeem (Seminole Hard Rock), Kiran Chinnagangannagari (Securin), Dr. Vinod Muthusamy (IBM), Malith Jayasinghe (WSO2). Insights:

Pronovix has published a new report where they evaluate the maturity of 19 developer portals within the banking sector. The report focuses on the pre-login discovery and evaluation stages of the user journey and demonstrates how human cognitive friction blocks AI visibility.

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