Build Automotive Intelligent Computing Platform
“APISIX meets our requirement on speeding development and iteration. What distinguishes APISIX is its rich plugins, visible configuration, fine-grained verification, abundant features, active community, and high performance.”
Xin Zhang
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Cloud-Native Development Engineer at Horizon Robotics
1.2 time performance improved
after using APISIX
Process terabyte-scale data
at a time in AI model training
Challenges
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Difficulties are encountered when attempting to achieve fine-grained configuration management in Traefik 1.x. Routing rules are configured through Ingress, and certain plugins require configuration via annotations. This approach is limited to the addition of plugins to rules within Ingress.
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Traefik 1.x doesn't support the visual configuration of specific rules and cannot directly locate a specific service by accessing the request URL through web browsers.
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Traefik only provides a limited number of default configuration files, ConfigMap, thereby necessitating developers to refer to the official documentation for configuration details. In addition, some parameters are inconsistent with the NGINX's default configuration, which can make maintenance more cumbersome.
Solution
Horizon Robotics has selected APISIX Ingress Controller as its traffic management gateway to provide unified service delivery.
Competitive Edge of Our Solution
Rich Plugins
All the plugins supported by APISIX can be configured declaratively using apisix-ingress-controller, and the plugins can be customized for a single backend under ApisixRoute.
Visual Configuration
One major advantage for customers is the visual configuration feature. By utilizing the APISIX Dashboard, customers can view each APISIX route. In the event of a conflict arising from configuring the same domain in multiple namespaces or YAML files, customers can quickly locate the path prefix by searching with the APISIX Dashboard.
Fine-Grained Verification
The APISIX Ingress Controller implements fine-grained verification of resources declared in the CRD it manages. In cases where a non-existent service is declared, error messages are stored in the ApisixRoute event, preventing the change from taking effect. This feature helps to minimize problems stemming from misuse.
Rich Features
Another key advantage for customers is the rich feature set offered by APISIX. This includes support for hot updates and hot plugins, proxy request rewriting, multiple authentications, and multi-language plugin development, among numerous other capabilities.
Active Community
APISIX benefits from an active community of maintainers and contributors on Slack, GitHub, and the mailing list, setting it apart from other open-source solution communities.
High Performance
APISIX's performance exceeds that of Envoy by approximately 120% in pressure tests, with the difference in QPS becoming more pronounced when more cores are involved.
Results
Streamline Operations
APISIX has enabled Horizon Robotics to streamline operations by facilitating easy uploading of oversized files.
Convenient Monitoring
The forward-auth plugin has improved monitoring convenience by reducing the need for a gRPC layer.
Fine-Grained Application Monitoring
Horizon Robotics has implemented the APISIX Prometheus plugin globally and conducted debugging and optimization to increase the number of real-time concurrencies, QPS, the success rate of APISIX real-time interface, and real-time bandwidth.
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