Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming a crucial part of the IT world. As organizations increasingly seek to integrate AI solutions into their processes, the need for structured and secure access to these models grows. This has led to the rise of AI Gateways a new, promising component in IT architectures.

But what exactly is an AI Gateway? And how can it be valuable for your organization?

In this blog, I’ll demonstrate just how easy it was to create a local demo where I’ve set up federation in gravitee.io. For a more business perspective on why you might want to use API federation, I refer you to the blog written by Gravitee :Why is Federated API Management better than what you’re doing now

API’s or application programming interfaces are a set of rules and protocols that allow two software applications to communicate with each other. As applications grow in size, so does the number of API’s too. without the right tools and infrastructure, managing these API’s can quickly become a challenge.

With the rise of API’s, API management platforms were for many years the primary technology to implement modern API technology, mainly driven by the implementation of API gateways, acting as a central server that sits between (public) clients and (private) backend applications.

As we approach 2025, the service mesh landscape is undergoing significant transformation. What started as a pattern to manage microservices communication has evolved into a more nuanced and efficient approach to cloud-native networking.

Three majors trends are on the radar in this blog, we will go a little bit deeper into these trends.

In the blog, expert Koen De Waele introduces the key benefits of service meshes, explains common challenges, and offers guidance on implementation strategies.

In API security and management, we often use a lot of different security mechanisms to protect the requested resource behind the API Gateway. One of these mechanisms is the validation of scopes to authorize a client on a specific sub-resource of the API. Most of the time the required scopes for the used HTTP verb are defined inside an OpenAPI Specification also known as a Swagger File.

With Gravitee.io, it is possible to retrieve multiple API documents from Bitbucket or Git (Git/GitHub/GitLab) and publish them to the portal. Once configured, every change made on the documentation in version control can be automatically pushed to the Gravitee Portal. With the help of the Gravitee descriptor file, it is possible to publish the pages on the Portal in a structured way: you can set one of the pages as the homepage and work with folders to maintain clean Documentation pages for your API’s.

Meet Rodrigo, our integration expert with a foreign background! Rodrigo recently made the bold decision to move all the way from Portugal to Belgium to work with us. Join us as we delve into his experiences, motivations, and aspirations for his new role as an Integration Expert at i8c Belgium.

Alexandra worked in tech for 15 years before joining i8c. With lots of experience in API management and Java development, we’re thrilled to add yet another expert to our i8c community! It’s pretty clear why we want to work with Alexandra, so let’s take a moment to discover why Alexandra chose to join our community…