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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 11h
12 days to Stockholm! 🚀Oct 12: UnconferenceOct 13–14: Nordic APIs Summit What happens when AI agents call your APIs? Join us to explore. Bring your crew: 15% off 2 tickets, 25% off 3+. 🎟️ nordicapis.com/events/platform-summ…
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 15h
"The speed at which things are progressing is nerve wrecking," says Isabelle Mauny. As AI agents gain access to more APIs and tools, she says enterprises need stronger governance, security, and evaluation frameworks.
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AI Agent Security in the Enterprise: Interview With Isabelle Mauny | Nordic APIs |
Isabelle Mauny explores AI agent security, MCP governance, API risks, supply chain threats, and cost control in the enterprise.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 29/09/2026
"If you're automating the wrong process, it's just going to do the wrong process more quickly." Claire Barrett explores the cultural mindset, judgment, and decision-making required to truly become AI-ready.
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Thinking Like A Naturalist: An Interview with Claire Barrett | Nordic APIs |
Claire Barrett explains why AI readiness requires systems thinking, governance, testing, and awareness of long-term risks.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 29/09/2026
What will it take to build an AI-native developer portal? Machine-readable outputs, semantic metadata, agent-facing discovery mechanisms, and more. Kristopher Sandoval explores how portals must evolve for AI agent consumers.
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Why Developer Portals Must Evolve in the AI Agent Age | Nordic APIs |
Why developer portals must evolve to support AI agents with machine-readable discovery, governance, and agent-ready API access.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 29/09/2026
"You're much more AI-ready if you've followed best practices around API design and documentation," says Lorna Mitchell. Today on the blog, Art Anthony talks with her ahead of Nordic APIs Summit about standards, agents, and good API design.
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Are Standards Still for Humans or Agents? In Conversation With Lorna Mitchell | Nordic APIs |
Lorna Mitchell explains why established API standards and good documentation matter as AI agents become API consumers.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 28/09/2026
Mapping and measuring your API portfolio is a first step toward organizational coherence. Ahead of Nordic APIs Summit, Gareth Faull talks with Art Anthony about "business gardening" and aligning APIs with organizational intent.
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Coherence, Connections, and… Spacetime Crystals | Nordic APIs |
Explore API coherence, business gardening, and how API estates can better align with organizational goals and change.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 25/09/2026
Are enterprises repeating the same governance mistakes with AI agents that they made with APIs? Isabelle Mauny explores why organizations should prepare now for rapidly expanding agent and MCP ecosystems.
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AI Agent Security in the Enterprise: Interview With Isabelle Mauny | Nordic APIs |
Isabelle Mauny explores AI agent security, MCP governance, API risks, supply chain threats, and cost control in the enterprise.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 24/09/2026
For over two decades, API design and architecture remained remarkably consistent. That's starting to change as we've radically recontextualized how APIs are used and who, or what, consumes them.
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6 Ways Traditional API Design Has Changed Forever | Nordic APIs |
Explore six ways API design is evolving for AI agents, machine consumers, security, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 24/09/2026
What are determinism and non-determinism, and when should you apply each in software engineering? Today on the blog, Janet Wagner breaks down the difference and why AI agents often need both.
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Understanding Determinism and Non-Determinism | Nordic APIs |
Learn how determinism and non-determinism shape AI agents, API workflows, guardrails, debugging, and reliable automation.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 23/09/2026
What does it really mean to be AI-ready? We catch up with Claire Barrett on the mindset shift required for AI-enabled strategies and integration, and the dangers of overlooking human factors.
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Thinking Like A Naturalist: An Interview with Claire Barrett | Nordic APIs |
Claire Barrett explains why AI readiness requires systems thinking, governance, testing, and awareness of long-term risks.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 23/09/2026
AI agents are forcing API design to evolve, but they're not the only factor. Changing security models, system dependencies, regulations, and new consumer types are reshaping traditional API design too. Here are six major shifts.
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6 Ways Traditional API Design Has Changed Forever | Nordic APIs |
Explore six ways API design is evolving for AI agents, machine consumers, security, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 22/09/2026
Data access and security are only becoming more important in the agentic AI age. Learn how If P&C Insurance used identity federation to manage partner access and protect sensitive data across a complex B2B environment.
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How Identity Federation Empowers Partner API Strategy | Nordic APIs |
Learn how B2B identity federation improves partner API security, access control, governance, and identity lifecycle management.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 22/09/2026
What should API providers expect from the move to stateless MCP? Slightly larger payloads, new security considerations, and simpler scaling. Janet Wagner pulls together industry perspectives on what the shift means in practice.
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MCP Went Stateless: What Now? | Nordic APIs |
Learn how stateless MCP improves scalability and changes state management, security, gateways, and MCP server architecture.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 22/09/2026
Interestingly, MCP and traditional developer portals are complementary. One is the "phone book" of endpoints, while the other handles authentication, billing, monitoring, governance, and more. Here's why both matter in the AI agent age.
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Why Developer Portals Must Evolve in the AI Agent Age | Nordic APIs |
Why developer portals must evolve to support AI agents with machine-readable discovery, governance, and agent-ready API access.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 21/09/2026
As AI agents and LLMs take on more autonomous, mission-critical roles, the "determinism gap" makes traditional APM insufficient. Adriano Mota outlines observability patterns for tracing, evaluation, cost, and security.
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Beyond the 200 OK: Architecting Observability for AI | Nordic APIs |
Learn how AI observability tracks quality, cost, retrieval, and agent behavior beyond traditional APM metrics.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 21/09/2026
Sure, you *can* collect user data. But *should* you? Art Anthony explores what happens when every company becomes a data company and the protections needed to handle customer data responsibly.
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What Happens After Every Company Becomes a Data Company? | Nordic APIs |
Learn how responsible data stewardship, identity controls, and data minimization can protect customer data across APIs and AI agents.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 18/09/2026
Traditional APM can miss semantic failures, retrieval blind spots, runaway agents, and uncontrolled costs. Adriano Mota explores what AI observability requires in the age of agentic AI.
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Beyond the 200 OK: Architecting Observability for AI | Nordic APIs |
Learn how AI observability tracks quality, cost, retrieval, and agent behavior beyond traditional APM metrics.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 18/09/2026
Today on the blog, WSO2's Isabelle Mauny explains why AI agent security can't be an afterthought. Existing API vulnerabilities, rogue MCP servers, privilege drift, and unchecked tool access all become more pressing as agent adoption grows.
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AI Agent Security in the Enterprise: Interview With Isabelle Mauny | Nordic APIs |
Isabelle Mauny explores AI agent security, MCP governance, API risks, supply chain threats, and cost control in the enterprise.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 17/09/2026
Preparing APIs for AI agents requires more than exposing endpoints. Here are ten areas to review, from workflow documentation and traffic handling to rate limiting, error responses, access control, and MCP support.
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10 Factors for Checking Your API's AI Readiness | Nordic APIs |
Review ten factors for AI-ready APIs, including documentation, access control, MCP, idempotency, versioning, and observability.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 17/09/2026
Less than a month to go. Time to rally your API crew! 🚀 Nordic APIs Summit is back in Stockholm, October 13–14. Plus a Day 0 Unconference to get the ideas flowing. Bring the team: 15% off two tickets, 25% off three or more. nordicapis.com/events/platform-summ…
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 17/09/2026
Today on the blog: AI agents, LLMs, MCP, and regulations are changing the rules of API design. J Simpson looks at six key areas that have evolved since REST was initially devised, likely for good.
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6 Ways Traditional API Design Has Changed Forever | Nordic APIs |
Explore six ways API design is evolving for AI agents, machine consumers, security, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 16/09/2026
What's a token, what kinds are out there, and what purpose does each serve? Janet Wagner breaks down authentication and authorization tokens, AI and LLM tokens, crypto tokens, and other application and API tokens.
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What Is a Token? A Developer's Guide to Every Type | Nordic APIs |
Learn the major types of tokens software developers use in authentication, LLMs, crypto, applications, and APIs.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 16/09/2026
In the agentic AI era, maintaining a coherent API portfolio matters more than ever. London Stock Exchange Group's Gareth Faull shares ideas for aligning APIs with organizational goals and avoiding structural fragmentation.
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Coherence, Connections, and… Spacetime Crystals | Nordic APIs |
Explore API coherence, business gardening, and how API estates can better align with organizational goals and change.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 15/09/2026
What will multi-agent infrastructure require at scale? Caching, observability and tracing, runtime governance, identity, and inter-agent communication are all imperative, writes Kristopher Sandoval.
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7 Tools for Multi-Agent Infrastructure | Nordic APIs |
Explore seven tools and architectural layers for building scalable, observable, and governed multi-agent infrastructure.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 15/09/2026
Authenticated API traffic can become a serious security risk when valid credentials mask malicious behavior. Here are five signs that API providers should watch for.
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5 Signs That Authenticated API Traffic Is Actually Malicious | Nordic APIs |
Learn five signs that authenticated API traffic may be malicious, from unusual access patterns to error rates and bulk actions.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 15/09/2026
Good agent-ready API design isn't entirely new. Clear documentation, predictable behavior, explicit contracts, and strong security still matter — but now APIs also need to explain themselves directly to autonomous software.
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10 Tips for Preparing APIs for Agentic Access | Nordic APIs |
10 ways to prepare agent-ready APIs for AI agents with better discovery, security, observability, workflows, and predictable design.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 15/09/2026
Being AI-ready is as much psychology as technology, says Claire Barrett. Ahead of her talk at this year's Nordic APIs Summit, we catch up with Claire on what AI readiness actually means in practice.
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Thinking Like A Naturalist: An Interview with Claire Barrett | Nordic APIs |
Claire Barrett explains why AI readiness requires systems thinking, governance, testing, and awareness of long-term risks.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 14/09/2026
API observability for AI agents goes beyond runtime heuristics. It requires assigning intent, correlating API workflows, tracking tool usage, and monitoring how agents interact with systems over time.
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How to Improve API Observability for AI Agents | Nordic APIs |
Learn how API providers can improve observability for AI agent traffic, MCP workflows, tool usage, and risk monitoring.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 14/09/2026
An unreliable API doesn't just frustrate developers. It can disrupt entire workflows. Kong's Chris Darvill explains why reliability matters as autonomous systems increasingly rely on APIs as the backbone for automated actions.
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API Marketplaces and the Invisible Economy: Trade Routes of the AI Era | Nordic APIs |
How API marketplaces turn APIs into tradable services for AI agents, enabling monetization, governance, and orchestration.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 11/09/2026
What does AI-native observability look like in the age of agentic AI? Today on the blog, Adriano Mota explains how to architect observability beyond "200 OK" responses and track what AI systems actually do.
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Beyond the 200 OK: Architecting Observability for AI | Nordic APIs |
Learn how AI observability tracks quality, cost, retrieval, and agent behavior beyond traditional APM metrics.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 10/09/2026
MCP's move to statelessness removes protocol-level session state and makes horizontal scaling much simpler. Janet Wagner looks at why experts see the change as an important step toward a more scalable, mature protocol.
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MCP Went Stateless: What Now? | Nordic APIs |
Learn how stateless MCP improves scalability and changes state management, security, gateways, and MCP server architecture.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 09/09/2026
"LLMs are extremely good when dealing with natural language," says Andrea Arcuri, but for many testing tasks, specialized algorithms are far more efficient. See where REST API fuzz testing is heading in the AI age.
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How Fuzz Testing for APIs Is Evolving | Nordic APIs |
Andrea Arcuri explains how API fuzz testing is evolving with LLMs, OpenAPI Overlay, and automated security testing.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 09/09/2026
How do you reach coherence across a large API portfolio? Gareth Faull turns to spacetime crystals for inspiration. Ahead of his Nordic APIs Summit talk, Art Anthony gets a preview of his thinking on API coherence and organizational alignment.
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Coherence, Connections, and… Spacetime Crystals | Nordic APIs |
Explore API coherence, business gardening, and how API estates can better align with organizational goals and change.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 08/09/2026
At the last Summit, we got a window into how If P&C Insurance implemented identity federation for its B2B partner APIs. It's worth another look as we prepare for this year's event!
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How Identity Federation Empowers Partner API Strategy | Nordic APIs |
Learn how B2B identity federation improves partner API security, access control, governance, and identity lifecycle management.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 04/09/2026
Nordic APIs Summit is back in Stockholm, October 13-14. 60+ sessions on what happens when agents start calling your APIs + Day 0 Unconference. Bring the team. Two tickets get 15% off, three or more get 25%. 👉 nordicapis.com/events/platform-summit-2026/
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 03/09/2026
MCP has gone stateless. Today, Janet Wagner explores what this shift means for developers, API providers, and the surrounding infrastructure.
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MCP Went Stateless: What Now? | Nordic APIs |
Learn how stateless MCP improves scalability and changes state management, security, gateways, and MCP server architecture.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 02/09/2026
Are your APIs actually ready for AI agents? Agentic traffic behaves differently from human-driven API use, requiring more predictable interfaces, better discovery metadata, stronger observability, and clearer security controls.
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10 Tips for Preparing APIs for Agentic Access | Nordic APIs |
10 ways to prepare agent-ready APIs for AI agents with better discovery, security, observability, workflows, and predictable design.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 01/09/2026
If P&C Insurance had a dilemma: it needed to open access to thousands of partners while keeping that access secure. Here, Kristopher Sandoval looks at its identity federation journey.
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How Identity Federation Empowers Partner API Strategy | Nordic APIs |
Learn how B2B identity federation improves partner API security, access control, governance, and identity lifecycle management.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 28/08/2026
We're excited to welcome Andrea Arcuri, Professor at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences and maintainer of the open source fuzz testing tool EvoMaster, back to the Nordic APIs Summit 2026 stage.
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How Fuzz Testing for APIs Is Evolving | Nordic APIs |
Andrea Arcuri explains how API fuzz testing is evolving with LLMs, OpenAPI Overlay, and automated security testing.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 27/08/2026
Big news: the Nordic APIs Summit 2026 agenda is live! 🎙️ Discover the 60+ sessions, keynotes, demos, and panel discussions we have planned for October 13–14 in Stockholm. Registration is open: nordicapis.com/events/platform-summ…
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Nordic APIs Summit 2026 | Nordic APIs
Join API industry leaders at Nordic APIs Summit 2026, our flagship event, to tackle the many challenges facing API-heavy enterprise software architectures.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 27/08/2026
What makes an API agent-ready? Today on the blog, J Simpson outlines 10 ways to prepare APIs for AI agents, from machine-readable documentation and explicit contracts to observability, security, discovery, and workflow support.
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10 Tips for Preparing APIs for Agentic Access | Nordic APIs |
10 ways to prepare agent-ready APIs for AI agents with better discovery, security, observability, workflows, and predictable design.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 25/08/2026
As multi-agent systems become more common, permissions can drift far beyond their original purpose. This piece looks at mitigation techniques, from permission inventories and monitoring to least-privilege and just-in-time access.
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How to Manage Privilege Drift in Multi-Agent Systems | Nordic APIs |
Learn how privilege drift affects multi-agent systems and how to manage AI agent permissions with least privilege and JIT access.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 24/08/2026
Last day to catch early bird pricing for Nordic APIs Summit and Unconference 2026. October 12-14, Stockholm. Get your tickets: nordicapis.com/events/platform-summ…
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 21/08/2026
Ahead of his Nordic APIs Summit 2026 talk on scaling data ingestion without Kubernetes, we caught up with Bauer Media Group UK's Faith Sodipe to discuss infrastructure complexity, overengineering, and when simpler systems win.
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Are We Overengineering Modern Infrastructure? | Nordic APIs |
Bauer Media Group UK's Faith Sodipe discusses infrastructure complexity ahead of his talk at Nordic APIs Summit 2026.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 21/08/2026
Ahead of Nordic APIs Summit 2026, we check in with speaker Andrea Arcuri on how fuzz testing for APIs is evolving. Read J Simpson's interview with Arcuri today on the blog.
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How Fuzz Testing for APIs Is Evolving | Nordic APIs |
Andrea Arcuri explains how API fuzz testing is evolving with LLMs, OpenAPI Overlay, and automated security testing.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 20/08/2026
The MCP observability space is still taking shape. These six tools can help teams make sense of MCP traffic, monitor tool calls, and support auditing across agentic systems.
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6 Tools for MCP Observability | Nordic APIs |
Explore six MCP observability tools for monitoring AI agents, tool calls, telemetry, and MCP server interactions.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 20/08/2026
Only several days left to catch Early Bird pricing to our Nordic APIs Summit. Get your tickets before prices go up on August 25: nordicapis.com/events/platform-summ…
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 19/08/2026
AI gateways, MCP gateways, and API gateways all serve different purposes. But does every new interaction model require a separate infrastructure stack? Rashmi Baberwal explores where enterprises can extend what they already have.
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API Gateways, AI Gateways, and MCP Gateways: Are Enterprises About to Pay Twice Again? | Nordic APIs |
How enterprises can prepare existing API infrastructure for AI gateways, MCP gateways, and agent-driven operations.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 17/08/2026
What is scope sprawl? It is the accumulation of excessive or poorly governed permissions across human and machine identities. Kristopher Sandoval explores where the dilemma appears and how architects can reduce the risk.
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What Is Scope Sprawl? | Nordic APIs |
Define scope sprawl and learn how over-permissioned tokens, OAuth scopes, and long-lived credentials create API security risks.
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Nordic APIs @nordicapis.com · 14/08/2026
What does it take to support complex multi-agent systems? Here, we break down the infrastructure required to coordinate agents, manage identity, route tasks, trace behavior, and govern activity at runtime.
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7 Tools for Multi-Agent Infrastructure | Nordic APIs |
Explore seven tools and architectural layers for building scalable, observable, and governed multi-agent infrastructure.
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