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Summaries are not the original full articles. ## How API Design Is Evolving for AI Agents, Security, Reliability, and Compliance DevFeed: [How API Design Is Evolving for AI Agents, Security, Reliability, and Compliance]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: J Simpson Published: 2026-09-17T07:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Nordic APIs]() Topics: [API](), [Architecture & Design](), [Artificial Intelligence](), [reliability](), [Security]() Tags: [agents](), [ai-agents](), [api](), [api-architecture](), [api-as-a-product](), [api-design](), [api-discovery](), [api-security](), [architecture](), [authorization](), [blog](), [mcp](), [microservices](), [rate-limiting](), [reliability](), [security]() ### AI overview This article examines six ways API design is evolving as APIs serve AI agents and other machine consumers, with implications for security, reliability, and regulatory compliance. ### Source excerpt For over two decades, API design and architecture remained remarkably consistent. Perhaps it's the outsized influence of Roy Fielding's RESTful dissertation, but API designers have stuck to the principles of stateless architecture, resource-based endpoints, and HTTP commands to an impressive degree. That's all starting to change, now that we've radically recontextualized the way we use ... ## Coherence, Connections, and... Spacetime Crystals DevFeed: [Coherence, Connections, and... Spacetime Crystals]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Art Anthony Published: 2026-09-09T07:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Nordic APIs]() Topics: [API](), [observability](), [Statistics]() Tags: [2026](), [ai-agents](), [api](), [api-architecture](), [api-ecosystem](), [api-governance](), [api-management](), [api-platform](), [api-strategy](), [artificial-intelligence](), [blog](), [governance](), [observability](), [statistics](), [uptime]() ### AI overview The article discusses API coherence and how API estates can align with organizational goals and change. It covers business gardening, observability, governance, uptime, and usage statistics in the context of API performance and organizational intent. ### Source excerpt Ahead of his Nordic APIs Summit 2026 talk on API coherence, London Stock Exchange Group's Gareth Faull joins us to talk about the art of aligning APIs with organizational intent. Measuring the performance of an API is a relatively straightforward process: ensure observability is in place, follow governance best practices, measure uptime, track usage statistics, ... ## API Gateways, AI Gateways, and MCP Gateways: Are Enterprises About to Pay Twice Again? DevFeed: [API Gateways, AI Gateways, and MCP Gateways: Are Enterprises About to Pay Twice Again?]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Rashmi Baberwal Published: 2026-08-12T07:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Nordic APIs]() Topics: [API](), [Model Context Protocol](), [Artificial Intelligence](), [Security](), [observability]() Tags: [ai](), [ai-agents](), [api](), [api-architecture](), [api-discovery](), [api-documentation](), [api-gateway](), [api-governance](), [api-management](), [api-monitoring](), [apis](), [artificial-intelligence](), [blog](), [generative-ai](), [infrastructure](), [mcp](), [observability](), [platforms](), [security](), [strategy]() ### AI overview The article examines how enterprises can prepare existing API infrastructure for AI gateways, MCP gateways, and agent-driven operations. It highlights prior investments in API management platforms, gateways, developer portals, security, observability, and API-first development. ### Source excerpt Over the last decade, enterprises invested heavily in API infrastructure. They purchased API management platforms, deployed gateways across business units and regions, built developer portals, introduced security and observability tools, and encouraged teams to adopt API-first development. The business case was compelling. APIs would make enterprise capabilities easier to reuse, shorten integration timelines, improve partner ... ## How Bazaarvoice UGC APIs serve information to its brand & retailers DevFeed: [How Bazaarvoice UGC APIs serve information to its brand & retailers]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Udayaram Kammara Published: 2024-05-06T11:57:33Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Bazaarvoice]() Topics: [API](), [Caching](), [Authentication](), [Security](), [App](), [configuration](), [Database](), [Server](), [servers]() Tags: [api](), [api-architecture](), [api-security](), [apis](), [authentication](), [bazaarvoice](), [caching](), [clients](), [cloud-infrastructure](), [content-syndication](), [conversations-api](), [data-denormalization](), [data-processing](), [database](), [e-commerce-solutions](), [enriched-data](), [gateway](), [high-traffic-systems](), [load-balancer](), [load-balancing](), [performance](), [product](), [product-catalog](), [read-and-write-apis](), [resilient-architecture](), [response-caching](), [scalability](), [security](), [software-architecture](), [ugc](), [user-generated-content-ugc]() ### AI overview This article describes the high-level architecture and design strategies behind Bazaarvoice's UGC APIs, including request authentication, gateway processing, load balancing, database retrieval, security filtering, and response caching. It states that the APIs recorded peak traffic of over 3 billion calls per day in 2023 and served hundreds of millions of pieces of user-generated content. ### Source excerpt Bazaarvoice has thousands of clients including brands and retailers. Bazaarvoice has billions of records of product catalog and User Generated Content(UGC)from Bazaarvoice clients. When a shopper visits a brand or retailer site/app powered by Bazaarvoice, our APIs are triggered. In 2023,Bazaarvoice UGC APIs recorded peak traffic of over 3+ billion calls per day with zero [...] ## Using an API - Trakt.tv example DevFeed: [Using an API - Trakt.tv example]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Marc Plano-Lesay Published: 2014-10-08T22:06:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Marc Plano-Lesay]() Topics: [API](), [Ruby](), [JSON](), [Code](), [Programming]() Tags: [api](), [api-architecture](), [article](), [code](), [how-to](), [json](), [rest](), [ruby]() ### AI overview This tutorial explains how applications can use website data through APIs, using Trakt.tv as an example. It introduces clients and servers, XML and JSON data formats, and REST concepts, with Ruby code for sending requests. ### Source excerpt A lot of websites are generating data which could be really useful outside a web browser. Having the weather shown on your smartphone's lock-screen, the delay until your next bus... How can we use this from an application? This article will explain what's behind these hidden data flows, and how to use them. For this purpose, I'll use Trakt.tv as an example. If you don't know it: Trakt allows you to manage your movie/TV series library, keep track of watch progress, your ratings, comments... and see those of other people. Some code will show how to send such requests. It will be written in Ruby.