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Articles on MCP gateways, AI governance, API gateways, spec-driven development, and building with Rust and WASM.

What is an MCP gateway? The category every API team will need in 2026

Model Context Protocol turns any API into a potential AI agent tool. MCP gateways solve the same problem API gateways solved 15 years ago: centralize tool exposure, governance, and observability instead of letting every team ship their own.

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Compliance by design, part 2: the compliance controls

From schema validation and secrets management to FIPS 140-3 cryptography and GitOps workflows — the specific controls Barbacane provides for SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and beyond.

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How we build our roadmap at Barbacane

A roadmap isn't a feature wishlist. It's a series of bets about what matters most, made with incomplete information. Here's how we decide what to build next for an open-source API gateway.

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