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.

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]