Blog posts on API
API blog posts(37)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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 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
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
Streamline app and API deployment in NGINX Management Suite with the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) GitHub repository, Packer, and Terraform.
By Paul Abel코드형 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 AbelMulti-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 StiefelTutorial: 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 AnanthanarayananFind 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 GritterWhy 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 BavananthamNGINX 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 PolencicNGINX 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 PolencicNGINX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 PolencicNGINX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 PolencicExposing 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 GileKubernetes에서 API 노출하기
2022년 3월 마이크로서비스 시리즈의 유닛 2에서는 Kubernetes에서 API를 외부에 노출하는 방법을 집중적으로 다룹니다. 3월 14일에 진행되는 라이브 스트리밍, 블로그 및 기타 사전 준비 자료, 실습 랩 ‘속도 제한으로 Kubernetes API 보호하기’ 등 필요한 리소스 링크를 확인해 보세요.
By Jenn GileKubernetesでAPIを公開する
Microservices March 2022のユニット2では、KubernetesでAPIを公開する方法を詳しく解説します。3月14日に開催されるライブストリーム、ブログなどの事前準備用リソース、ハンズオンラボ「レート制限によるKubernetes APIの保護」など、必要なリソースへのリンクをご案内します。
By Jenn GileExposición de APIs en Kubernetes
La unidad 2 de Microservices March 2022 se centra en cómo exponer tus API en Kubernetes. Aquí tienes enlaces a los recursos que necesitas: la retransmisión en directo del 14 de marzo, artículos de blo...
By Jenn Gile在Kubernetes中公开API
2022年3月微服务系列活动第2单元将全面介绍如何在Kubernetes中公开API。以下是所需资源的链接：3月14日的直播、博客及其他准备资料，以及动手实验“使用速率限制保护Kubernetes API”。
By Jenn GileNGINX App Protect Brings Security to the API Ecosystem
A “security as code” approach centered around NGINX App Protect is key to protecting your APIs. Integrate non‑disruptive security controls into your automation and CI/CD processes so that app security...
By Scott LasterSecuring gRPC APIs with NGINX App Protect
NGINX App Protect secures gRPC APIs by detecting malicious data in message headers and payloads, nested and complex data structures included. Define security policies in gRPC IDL files, and NGINX App ...
By Yaniv SazmanAPIs as User Experience and Why It Matters
APIs are the new CLI. Increasingly, it is through an API that infrastructure and application services are provisioned, configured, and operated. Between automation and integration into deployment pipe...
By Lori Mac Vittie