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Enterprise adoption of large language models introduces a fundamental security challenge: how do you grant AI agents access to internal data without creating a backdoor that bypasses your existing access controls? Traditional database connections rely on service accounts with broad permissions, but when an LLM queries your customer records or financial data on behalf of a user, it must respect that user's specific entitlements.

Bringing APIs and events together has always been a challenge. REST APIs give developers a familiar interface, while event brokers like Solace Broker excel at fan-out, filtering, and scalable, reliable event delivery. The tricky part? Bridging these two worlds without building a lot of custom glue. That’s exactly what the new Kong plugin for Solace upstream mediation does.

Enterprise product teams are squarely in the throes of a massive shift. New Gartner research crystalized that companies using AI tools for product management are reaping a significant 35% productivity gain and achieving a two to three-year time-to-market advantage over those who wait.

Government and defense agencies require extreme security measures to protect sensitive data like classified intelligence and military operations. Air-gapped systems, which are physically isolated from external networks, provide a robust solution by ensuring no remote access is possible. These systems are critical for deploying large language models (LLMs) safely in secure environments, enabling advanced AI capabilities like intelligence analysis and mission planning without risking data breaches.

Over the past few years, we’ve watched coding velocity accelerate at an extraordinary pace. AI has completely disrupted how developers build software. Agentic tools can now generate clean code faster than ever before. While AI has turbocharged code generation, code review, and code-level testing, it’s created a massive strain on the rest of the software development lifecycle.

“API strategy” is a term prominently established in the ecosystem and heavily discussed, implemented, and followed by organizations. The term is more relevant now since API strategy has become, for the most part, AI strategy, since AI agents and services are now consuming APIs and tools to work towards business-specific goals under human tutelage. So the longstanding definition and scope of API strategy must take into account AI consumers.