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That’s a wrap on API Summit 2025! At our eighth annual event, the brightest minds in the worlds of APIs and AI gathered in New York City to define the next chapter of digital innovation. We're entering an era where APIs are not just connecting services but connecting intelligence. APIs are the neural pathways of this new AI world, where agents will reason, act, and collaborate through endpoints. At this year's API Summit, we saw how quickly this vision is becoming reality.

Testing database-driven applications is notoriously painful. If your app depends on MySQL, you’ve probably spent hours setting up local databases, running migrations, loading data, and then cleaning everything up just to rerun your tests. This repetitive cycle slows development, breaks pipelines, and introduces inconsistency between local and production environments.

For the tenth consecutive time, Gartner has named Google Cloud Apigee a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for API Management.

Healthcare organizations are under growing pressure to connect legacy EHR (Electronic Health Record) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems while safeguarding patient privacy and meeting strict compliance standards. Most of these systems — Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH, Infor, Oracle, SAP, and others — rely on enterprise-grade databases like Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, SAP HANA, InterSystems IRIS, and PostgreSQL.

One of Kong Gateway’s superpowers is deck, our first-party declarative configuration tool. Tens of thousands of developers all around the world have embraced a text-driven, version-controlled configuration workflow for the world’s most used API Gateway. The deck CLI is an incredible tool, but it only works for Kong Gateway.

With software applications growing increasingly complex, the way we test them to guarantee reliability and security must also increase accordingly. Among the many types of testing available, Grey Box Testing stands out as a hybrid method that presents us with a balanced perspective of insights from both black box and white box testing. It doesn`t matter if you’re a developer, QA engineer, or someone new to testing; grey box testing is important to everyone in today’s technological landscape.

The term “Behavior Driven Development”, or BDD, is an umbrella term for a wide variety of techniques. The general principles of BDD include reframing tests as descriptions of system behavior – “when I do one thing, I should see this result”. Historically, those descriptions were the output of a computer program. Over time, the uses of BDD shifted toward Gherkin, an English-like but precise language.

Modernizing AS/400 systems and legacy ERP platforms is no longer optional - it’s essential for businesses to stay competitive. These systems, while reliable, struggle to meet modern demands like real-time data access, cloud integration, and mobile compatibility. The solution? REST API generators. REST API generators allow businesses to connect outdated systems with modern applications without overhauling the entire infrastructure.

Today, we're open-sourcing Volcano SDK, a TypeScript SDK for building AI agents that combines LLM reasoning with real-world actions through MCP tools. Why Volcano SDK? One reason: because 9 lines of code are faster to write and easier to manage than 100+. Without Volcano SDK? You'd need 100+ lines handling tool schemas, context management, provider switching, error handling, and HTTP clients. With Volcano SDK: 9 lines. Look how we compress 100+ lines with the following example: That's it.