The Stack Overflow Podcast As your AI gets smarter, so must your API
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Sep 30, 2025 Ryan chats with Marco Palladino, CTO and co-founder of Kong, an all-in-one API platform. They dive into the explosive rise of AI agents, highlighting how these entities are reshaping API consumption. Marco introduces the MCP protocol, designed for agent-friendly interactions, and discusses the critical need for security, observability, and governance in AI systems. They explore the idea of agents becoming the primary users of the internet and how businesses must adapt to leverage these changes before they fall behind.
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Agents Drive Massive API Growth
- AI agents are creating roughly 10x more API traffic than before, driven by new use cases.
- This surge makes APIs a central infrastructure layer for agentic applications.
MCP Is An Agent-Friendly API Protocol
- MCP is essentially an API protocol designed to make tool advertising and consumption easier for agents.
- Agents need rich API ecosystems (MCP or REST) more than just smarter models to be capable.
Wrap APIs For Agent Adoption
- Build MCP wrappers atop existing REST APIs to increase adoption by making agent integration easier.
- Also plan for deployment, scaling, security, and observability when exposing MCP servers.