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IBM API Gateway: Production Architecture

A practical walkthrough of IBM API Connect and DataPower Gateway: components, request lifecycle, deployment via the apic CLI, OpenAPI assembly policies, OAuth and mTLS, HA topology, and the operational patterns that keep regulated financial APIs reliable at scale.

IBM API Connect DataPower OAuth 2.0 mTLS Financial Services
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Kong & Envoy at the Edge: Open-Source Gateway Strategies

A production-grade walkthrough of Kong Gateway and Envoy Proxy for financial services: FAPI 2.0 and mTLS configuration, Redis-backed rate limiting, dark-launch migration patterns from commercial gateways, and the topology decisions that survive a SAMA security audit.

Kong Gateway Envoy Proxy FAPI 2.0 mTLS Istio
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AWS API Gateway for Regulated Workloads: VPC Integration, WAF & Custom Authorisers

VPC private integrations, WAF rule tuning for ISO 20022 payloads, Lambda authoriser design for FAPI 2.0 and mTLS, usage plans for partner quotas, and the access-log pipeline that satisfies a SAMA security review.

AWS API Gateway AWS WAF VPC Link Lambda Authoriser mTLS
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GraphQL Federation with Apollo Router: Schema Governance and Supergraph Design

Apollo Federation 2 subgraph SDL, Apollo Router configuration, Kong GraphQL rate-limiting, schema registry governance, persisted queries, and the incremental federation rollout pattern for a banking integration estate with multiple domain teams.

Apollo Federation GraphQL Kong Gateway OpenShift Schema Registry
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Rate Limiting and Throttling: Sliding Window, Token Bucket, and SAMA Quota Compliance

Sliding window Lua script on Redis, Kong rate-limiting-advanced with multi-window AIS config, IBM API Connect rate plans for PIS and AIS, adaptive limiting under load, and bypass prevention patterns for regulated open banking APIs.

Kong Gateway Redis IBM API Connect OpenShift Open Banking
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