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November 05, 2026

MCP Gateway vs. LLM Gateway: The Two Control Points Every Enterprise AI Deployment Needs

An MCP gateway controls what AI agents can access in your systems (tools, data, APIs). An LLM gateway controls what leaves your agents for the model (prompts, context, and the …

November 05, 2026

What Is Agent Identity? Why AI Agents Break the Human-vs-Service-Account Model

Get ready, this is a mouthful. Agent identity is a distinct, per-instance identity for each running AI agent, tied to the agent definition that created it, chained to the human …

November 05, 2026

What Guardrails Should You Put Around AI Agents? Three Control Points for Enterprise Teams

Enterprise AI agents need guardrails at three control points: (1) a governed gateway between agents and your data, (2) a gateway between the agent and the model it calls, and …

November 05, 2026

Why Structural Debt Won’t Get Cheaper in Production: Platform Foundations in the Age of AI

Does generative AI make technical debt cheaper to pay down? For feature-level debt, probably yes. For structural debt in production systems (the security posture, the operational model, the recovery story) …

November 03, 2026

Why you need a kill switch for your MCP and AI gateways

An agent starts making unexpected calls through an MCP server your team approved six weeks ago. Maybe a dependency changed underneath it that exposes you to a potential security liability. …

November 03, 2026

Identity for the agents that work without you

At 3:12 a.m., a pull request merges into a production repo. The audit log says Jeremy approved it. Jeremy left the company a month ago. No one did anything malicious. …