Rate Limiting LLM API Calls: Tokens, Budgets, and Consumer Quotas
LLM traffic changes rate limit design. Account for token use, bursts, and separate budgets for each consumer.
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API gateway engineering, LLM infrastructure, and production systems for AI.
MCP Gateway in 30 Minutes: Secure and Limit Your MCP Server
Put a gateway before an MCP server with this practical guide. Configure authentication and rate limits through one routes.json file.
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API Keys or JWT for LLM Auth: Which Fits?
API keys validate quickly, while JWTs include identity claims without a lookup. Choose based on callers and the activity you must track.
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LLM Provider Routing: Failover, Traffic Weights, and Latency
Routing among providers improves reliability as well as cost. Explore priority failover, weighted traffic, and gateway choices based on latency.
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Why an API Gateway Comes Before Kubernetes
Rate limiting, auth, and routing are API contract problems. You need a gateway on day one, not after you scale.
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LLM Proxy Request Logging: Capture the Right Data
Logging every prompt creates compliance and cost risks. Capture enough for debugging and cost attribution without retaining sensitive model inputs.
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Semantic Versioning for AI APIs: Model Changes Can Break Clients
A new underlying model can change endpoint output. Version AI APIs so clients choose when to adopt model upgrades.
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Gateway-Level Prompt Injection Defense
Prompt injection targets models, but infrastructure can reduce exposure. Use gateway pattern matching to screen requests before they reach the model.
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MCP Protocol Deep Dive: Sessions, Tools, and Transport
MCP is more than an API format. Its session lifecycle affects how gateways manage connections to MCP servers.
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Five Rate Limit Patterns for API Teams
Fixed and sliding windows, token and leaky buckets, plus concurrent request limits address different needs. Learn where each pattern fits and fails.
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LLM API Cost Control: Make Token Budgets Infrastructure
Set token budgets in the gateway beside authentication and rate limits. This guide shows how to define them as policy.
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Build Developer Portals on Your API Gateway
With config-as-code, generate a developer portal from gateway configuration instead of maintaining a separate system.
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Why Zuplo Started With Config-as-Code
Other gateways we reviewed made configuration a UI concern. We put gateway state in Git with a routes.json-first architecture.
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