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API blog posts(51)

Right for the wrong reasons: The unstoppable rise to 2 billion APIs
Industry Trends | 09/23/2026

Right for the wrong reasons: The unstoppable rise to 2 billion APIs

The old API sprawl math was human-limited. AI agents now create and chain endpoints autonomously, driving rapid growth in AI-related API calls and integrations.

By Lori Mac Vittie
AI App Delivery Top 10: Insufficient traffic controls
Industry Trends | 06/25/2026

AI App Delivery Top 10: Insufficient traffic controls

Traditional rate limits and throttles miss the real blast radius. AI workloads fan out across models, vector stores, and services, driving latency spikes, cascading failures, and retries.

By Lori Mac Vittie
Behavior and boundaries: The agentic security shift
Industry Trends | 06/03/2026

Behavior and boundaries: The agentic security shift

Agents create emergent, unbounded sequences where risk accumulates over time. Security must shift from single-request validation to continuous behavioral governance across multi-step, evolving flows.

By Lori Mac Vittie
Identity is the gatekeeper to agentic AI
F5 Research | 05/27/2026

Identity is the gatekeeper to agentic AI

As agentic AI shifts machines from tools to actors, identity becomes the core control: who can act, on whose behalf, with what scope—enforced inline at inference time.

By Lori Mac Vittie
Programmability is the only way control survives at AI scale
Industry Trends | 12/09/2025

Programmability is the only way control survives at AI scale

Learn why data and control plane programmability are crucial for scaling and securing AI-driven systems, ensuring real-time control in a fast-changing environment.

By Lori Mac Vittie
Multicloud chaos ends at the Equinix Edge with F5 Distributed Cloud CE
F5 Ecosystem | 11/24/2025

Multicloud chaos ends at the Equinix Edge with F5 Distributed Cloud CE

Simplify multicloud security with Equinix and F5 Distributed Cloud CE. Centralize your perimeter, reduce costs, and enhance performance with edge-driven WAAP.

By Lori Mac Vittie
How AI inference changes application delivery
Industry Trends | 11/19/2025

How AI inference changes application delivery

Learn how AI inference reshapes application delivery by redefining performance, availability, and reliability, and why traditional approaches no longer suffice.

By Lori Mac Vittie
The influence of inference: APIs, DPUs, and context chaos
Industry Trends | 11/13/2025

The influence of inference: APIs, DPUs, and context chaos

AI inference reshapes infrastructure, multiplying APIs, stressing compute, and complicating context. Learn why smarter architecture and runtime policy are essential.

By Lori Mac Vittie
Managing context windows in AI isn’t magic. It’s architecture.
Industry Trends | 08/27/2025

Managing context windows in AI isn’t magic. It’s architecture.

Discover why AI app builders must manage context, memory, and infrastructure while evolving delivery and security to prevent drift, latency, and prompt attacks.

By Lori Mac Vittie
AI의 컨텍스트 윈도우 관리는 마법이 아닙니다. 아키텍처입니다.
업계 동향 | 08/27/2025

AI의 컨텍스트 윈도우 관리는 마법이 아닙니다. 아키텍처입니다.

AI 앱 빌더가 드리프트, 지연, 프롬프트 공격을 방지하기 위해 컨텍스트, 메모리, 인프라를 관리하는 동시에 배포 및 보안 체계를 발전시켜야 하는 이유를 알아보세요.

By Lori Mac Vittie
When Complexity Becomes the Enemy: How Operational Workflow Sprawl Threatens Performance and Delivery
F5 Ecosystem | 07/30/2025

When Complexity Becomes the Enemy: How Operational Workflow Sprawl Threatens Performance and Delivery

Explore how operational workflow complexity threatens uptime, resilience, and delivery, and why simplifying processes is key to modern app infrastructure.

By Lori Mac Vittie
What is the Application Delivery Top 10?
F5 Ecosystem | 12/10/2024

What is the Application Delivery Top 10?

F5 aims to help organizations address challenges in delivering and securing applications, APIs, and generative AI with the Application Delivery Top 10 list.

By Lori Mac Vittie
O que é o Top 10 de Entrega de Aplicações?
Ecossistema F5 | 12/10/2024

O que é o Top 10 de Entrega de Aplicações?

A F5 busca ajudar as organizações a enfrentar os desafios de entrega e proteção de aplicações, APIs e IA generativa com a lista dos 10 principais desafios de entrega de aplicações.

By Lori Mac Vittie
애플리케이션 딜리버리 10대 과제란 무엇인가요?
F5 에코시스템 | 12/10/2024

애플리케이션 딜리버리 10대 과제란 무엇인가요?

F5는 애플리케이션 딜리버리 10대 과제 목록을 통해 조직이 애플리케이션, API 및 생성형 AI를 제공하고 보호하는 과정에서 직면하는 문제를 해결할 수 있도록 지원하고자 합니다.

By Lori Mac Vittie
The Death of the ADC has Been Largely Exaggerated
F5 Ecosystem | 11/20/2024

The Death of the ADC has Been Largely Exaggerated

As complexity increases, organizations need a modern application delivery controller that addresses their most common delivery and security challenges.

By Lori Mac Vittie
Use Infrastructure as Code to Deploy F5 NGINX Management Suite
NGINX | 08/08/2023

Use Infrastructure as Code to Deploy F5 NGINX Management Suite

Streamline app and API deployment in NGINX Management Suite with the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) GitHub repository, Packer, and Terraform.

By Paul Abel
코드형 인프라를 사용하여 F5 NGINX Management Suite 배포
NGINX | 08/08/2023

코드형 인프라를 사용하여 F5 NGINX Management Suite 배포

코드형 인프라(IaC) GitHub 리포지토리, Packer, Terraform을 활용하여 NGINX Management Suite에서 앱 및 API 배포를 간소화하세요.

By Paul Abel
Multi-Cloud API Security with NGINX and F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP
NGINX | 08/01/2023

Multi-Cloud API Security with NGINX and F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP

Navigate the complexity of distributed environments and securely deliver APIs at scale with this three-tier approach to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

By Andrew Stiefel
Tutorial: Deliver and Secure GraphQL APIs with F5 NGINX
NGINX | 07/20/2023

Tutorial: Deliver and Secure GraphQL APIs with F5 NGINX

Learn how to add advanced threat protection to your GraphQL APIs with the NGINX Management Suite Security Monitoring module, NGINX App Protect WAF, and more.

By Akash Ananthanarayanan
Find and Fix API Endpoint Issues with Akita’s NGINX Plus Certified Module
NGINX | 05/31/2023

Find and Fix API Endpoint Issues with Akita’s NGINX Plus Certified Module

Identify and fix problems with your API endpoints faster with a new NGINX Plus Certified Module for API observability from Akita Software.

By Mark Gritter
Why the API Developer Experience Matters
NGINX | 09/08/2022

Why the API Developer Experience Matters

The API developer experience is one of the most important factors in determining the overall success of an API. Learn the four important principles that lead to great experiences.

By Rajesh Bavanantham
API 개발자 경험이 중요한 이유
NGINX | 09/08/2022

API 개발자 경험이 중요한 이유

API 개발자 경험은 API의 전반적인 성공을 좌우하는 가장 중요한 요소 중 하나입니다. 훌륭한 경험을 만드는 네 가지 핵심 원칙을 알아보세요.

By Rajesh Bavanantham
NGINX Tutorial: Protect Kubernetes APIs with Rate Limiting
NGINX | 03/21/2022

NGINX Tutorial: Protect Kubernetes APIs with Rate Limiting

Popular apps can be vulnerable to traffic surges that overwhelm the APIs and cause cascade failures. In this tutorial, Daniele Polencic of learnk8s demonstrates how to use multiple NGINX Ingress Contr...

By Daniele Polencic
Tutorial do NGINX: proteja APIs do Kubernetes com limitação de taxa
NGINX | 03/21/2022

Tutorial do NGINX: proteja APIs do Kubernetes com limitação de taxa

Aplicativos populares podem ficar vulneráveis a picos de tráfego que sobrecarregam as APIs e causam falhas em cascata. Neste tutorial, Daniele Polencic, da learnk8s, demonstra como usar vários NGINX I...

By Daniele Polencic
NGINX 튜토리얼: 속도 제한으로 Kubernetes API 보호하기
NGINX | 03/21/2022

NGINX 튜토리얼: 속도 제한으로 Kubernetes API 보호하기

인기 있는 앱은 트래픽이 급증하면 API에 과부하가 걸리고 연쇄 장애가 발생할 수 있습니다. 이 튜토리얼에서는 learnk8s의 Daniele Polencic이 여러 NGINX Ingress Controller를 속도 제한 기능과 함께 사용하여 Kubernetes 앱과 API의 장애를 방지하는 방법을 설명합니다.

By Daniele Polencic
NGINXチュートリアル:レート制限でKubernetes APIを保護
NGINX | 03/21/2022

NGINXチュートリアル:レート制限でKubernetes APIを保護

人気のアプリは、トラフィックの急増によってAPIが過負荷となり、連鎖的な障害が発生する可能性があります。このチュートリアルでは、learnk8sのDaniele Polencic氏が、複数のNGINX Ingress Controllerとレート制限を組み合わせて、KubernetesのアプリとAPIのクラッシュを防ぐ方法を紹介します。

By Daniele Polencic
Tutoriel NGINX : protégez les API Kubernetes grâce à la limitation du débit
NGINX | 03/21/2022

Tutoriel NGINX : protégez les API Kubernetes grâce à la limitation du débit

Les applications populaires peuvent être vulnérables aux pics de trafic qui saturent les API et provoquent des défaillances en cascade. Dans ce tutoriel, Daniele Polencic de learnk8s explique comment ...

By Daniele Polencic
NGINX-Tutorial: Kubernetes-APIs mit Ratenbegrenzung schützen
NGINX | 03/21/2022

NGINX-Tutorial: Kubernetes-APIs mit Ratenbegrenzung schützen

Beliebte Apps können durch plötzliche Lastspitzen gefährdet sein, die APIs überlasten und Kaskadenausfälle verursachen. In diesem Tutorial zeigt Daniele Polencic von learnk8s, wie sich mehrere NGINX I...

By Daniele Polencic
NGINX教程:使用速率限制保护Kubernetes API
NGINX | 03/21/2022

NGINX教程:使用速率限制保护Kubernetes API

热门应用可能容易受到流量激增的影响,导致API不堪重负并引发级联故障。在本教程中,learnk8s的Daniele Polencic将演示如何结合使用多个NGINX Ingress Controller并启用速率限制,防止Kubernetes应用和API崩溃。

By Daniele Polencic
Exposing APIs in Kubernetes
NGINX | 03/10/2022

Exposing APIs in Kubernetes

Unit 2 of Microservices March 2022 is all about how to expose your APIs in Kubernetes. Here are links to the resources you need: the livestream taking place on March 14, blogs and other prep resources...

By Jenn Gile
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