The Mountains of Kong
[Image: Mitchell 1839 detail. The Mountains of Kong, running east to west across an 1839 atlas. Fifty years before anyone checked. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.] In 1798, an English cartographer called James Rennell drew a range of mountains across West Africa. He’d never been there. He was working from Mungo Park’s reports of hills […]
Open source built Tyk. It wouldn’t today.
“That was the open source playbook. Give it away. Get discovered. Get trusted. Get paid.”
AI agents will only use MCP, so do we still care about traditional APIs?
“Every useful MCP server is wrapping an API. MCP changes who the consumer is.
It doesn’t change what’s being consumed.”
The odd one out
Gartner published its Market Overview for AI Gateways in May.
Thirteen American companies and one British one.
Remember Consignia? No. That’s the point.
In a market you didn’t create, your clever new vocabulary isn’t an asset. It’s a liability.
Building the next generation of API experiences for Gen Z
We’ve all read the big consultancy firms’ reports on what Gen Z wants from their banking experiences, but when did you last speak to a member of Gen Z to get input firsthand? Tyk’s Laura Heritage tackled this head-on at the LEAP 2026 conference, through a lively panel discussion with Gen Z consumer Sidney Olson […]
We hired an agent. It onboarded like everyone else.
In 1935, the US Army held a fly-off to choose its next bomber. Boeing turned up with the Model 299. It was the clear favourite. Bigger, faster, carried more than anything else on the field. The contract was as good as signed. On the demo flight, it took off, climbed, stalled, and crashed in a […]
Potemkin’s villages
In 1787, Catherine the Great sailed down the Dnieper to inspect her new lands. Her minister, Grigory Potemkin, had a problem. The lands were a mess. Poor, empty, unimpressive. So he built fake villages along the riverbank. Painted facades. Happy “peasants” who were actually his own men. As the boat passed, he’d dismantle the village, […]
Everyone’s an MCP gateway now
Not every MCP Gateway is equal.
There is a significant difference between a plugin and native MCP support.
This blog walks through the implications.
AI agents need API gateways
I’ve had the same conversation repeatedly this month. Someone building an AI agent system, getting excited about MCP, connecting their agents to internal tools and then asking: “Wait, how do we rate limit this? How do we audit what the agents are calling? What happens if an agent goes rogue and starts hammering our internal […]