Blog posts on API
API blog posts(24)
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 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 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 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 SazmanBatching API Requests with NGINX Plus and the NGINX JavaScript Module
The NGINX JavaScript module released with NGINX Plus R15 supports subrequests, adding a whole new class of use cases for NGINX Plus. This complete example also uses the NGINX Plus API and Key-Value mo...
By Rick NelsonAnnouncing NGINX Plus R8
NGINX Plus Release 8 includes support for OAuth 2.0 processing, production-ready HTTP/2, persistent dynamic reconfiguration of upstream servers, & more.
By Owen GarrettAnnouncing NGINX Plus Release 5
Learn about the great new features in NGINX Plus Release 5 (R5), including TCP load balancing and a host of other load balancing and caching enhancements
By Owen Garrett
Using NGINX and NGINX Plus with Node.js and Socket.IO, the WebSocket API
Learn how to use NGINX and NGINX Plus to proxy applications built on Node.js and Socket.IO, a popular WebSocket API
By Patrick Nommensen