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Efficiently Manage Your GraphQL API with API Gateway

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March 21, 2023

Efficiently Manage Your GraphQL API with API Gateway

The DeGraphQL plugin, which allows us to convert the GraphQL API into a REST API. In this post, we will explore this feature with an example.

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Why Is APISIX Ingress a Better Choice than Emissary-ingress?

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March 17, 2023

Why Is APISIX Ingress a Better Choice than Emissary-ingress?

This article compares the performance of APISIX Ingress and Emissary-ingress from multiple dimensions such as scalability and service discovery integration.

etcd vs PostgreSQL

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March 17, 2023

etcd vs PostgreSQL

Analysis of the differences between etcd and PostgreSQL from their historical background, data models, client interfaces, storage, distributed computing, and maintenance

A Guide to DevSecOps with API Gateway

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March 13, 2023

A Guide to DevSecOps with API Gateway

In this article, we will walk you through the reasons why API Gateway is important in building APIs with DevSecOps approach.

Upcoming | API7 DevPortal - Taking API Management Efficiency to the Next Level

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March 10, 2023

Upcoming | API7 DevPortal - Taking API Management Efficiency to the Next Level

API7 DevPortal is upcoming, being marvelous in full lifecycle API management and offering features like API subscription and developer registration approval.

How to Prevent Sensitive Data From Leaking in API Gateway

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March 3, 2023

How to Prevent Sensitive Data From Leaking in API Gateway

APISIX protects sensitive data with `Global Data Encryption` and supports third-party services like Secret Manager.

How to Use cert-manager and HashiCorp Vault to Manage Certificates?

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March 2, 2023

How to Use cert-manager and HashiCorp Vault to Manage Certificates?

Users may use cert-manager to obtain certificates from Vault and employ Apache APISIX Ingress Controller to enable HTTPS proxy for their applications.

Expose APIs from Apache APISIX to the Power Platform

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February 27, 2023

Expose APIs from Apache APISIX to the Power Platform

In this article, we will show you how to create a custom connector for the open-source Apache APISIX API Gateway in Power Apps.

API7 Cloud Integrates with Kubernetes Service Discovery

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February 24, 2023

API7 Cloud Integrates with Kubernetes Service Discovery

API7 Cloud integrates with Kubernetes Service Discovery to help users proxy applications deployed in the Kubernetes cluster conveniently.

Transforming Log Plugins to Enhance Observability

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February 24, 2023

Transforming Log Plugins to Enhance Observability

APISIX provides many log plugins to enhance the observability and system stability of API gateway.

Use APISIX, Prometheus, and KEDA to Scale Applications Elastically in Kubernetes

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February 17, 2023

Use APISIX, Prometheus, and KEDA to Scale Applications Elastically in Kubernetes

Use Prometheus to collect the metrics exposed by APISIX, and KEDA as the controller to autoscale applications.

Apache APISIX Serverless Plugin for Event Hooks

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February 15, 2023

Apache APISIX Serverless Plugin for Event Hooks

In this article, we'll cover the basics of the Apache APISIX serverless plugin and how it can be used to trigger serverless functions in response to events.

APISIX: Migrate etcd Operation From HTTP to gRPC

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February 10, 2023

APISIX: Migrate etcd Operation From HTTP to gRPC

APISIX migrates etcd operation from HTTP to gRPC to solve architectural issues like mTLS authentication.

Powering AI Capabilities with Apache APISIX and OpenAI API

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February 7, 2023

Powering AI Capabilities with Apache APISIX and OpenAI API

In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of integrating Apache APISIX with the OpenAI API and how you can use Apache APISIX to create a more scalable, performant, and secure AI integration.

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud API Management: Challenges and Choices

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February 6, 2023

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud API Management: Challenges and Choices

This blog introduces the status quo of API management on multi-cloud and hybrid cloud and gives some better choices under such situation.

1s to 10ms: Reducing Prometheus Delay in API Gateway

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January 31, 2023

1s to 10ms: Reducing Prometheus Delay in API Gateway

Prometheus plugins often cause long tail requests, but APISIX can solve this problem and reduces the delay from 1s to 10ms.

"inspect": Apache APISIX Lua Dynamic Debugging Plugin

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January 29, 2023

"inspect": Apache APISIX Lua Dynamic Debugging Plugin

Apache APISIX's inspect plugin is beneficial in troubleshooting, printing blocked logs, and learning Lua code by debugging.

Cloud migration strategies with API Gateway

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January 18, 2023

Cloud migration strategies with API Gateway

This article explores different approaches to building your cloud migration strategy using an API Gateway.

Manage serverless APIs with Apache APISIX

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January 18, 2023

Manage serverless APIs with Apache APISIX

This article shows with the simple example how to manage Java-based serverless APIs with Apache APISIX.

How to Use Secret Manager with API Gateway

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January 13, 2023

How to Use Secret Manager with API Gateway

Using a Secret Manager can effectively improve the security and stability of the API Gateway, which Apache APISIX dramatically supports.

APISIX Ingress Controller Integrates with Service Discovery

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January 13, 2023

APISIX Ingress Controller Integrates with Service Discovery

APISIX Ingress Controller integrates with service discovery to reduce deployment costs for microservices.

How to Proxy External Services in Apache APISIX Ingress Controller

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January 13, 2023

How to Proxy External Services in Apache APISIX Ingress Controller

The methods of proxying external services in APISIX Ingress Controller are introduced.

APISIX: Be FIPS 140-2 Compliant

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January 6, 2023

APISIX: Be FIPS 140-2 Compliant

APISIX enhances its security by being compliant with FIPS 140-2, the security for cryptographic modules.

Automate Canary Release Decisions in Your Kubernetes Cluster

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December 30, 2022

Automate Canary Release Decisions in Your Kubernetes Cluster

Let's learn how to use API7 Cloud to operate the canary releases declaratively and automate the canary release.

Deep Dive into Authentication in Microservices

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December 23, 2022

Deep Dive into Authentication in Microservices

Implementing authentication on each microservice, implementing authentication through an authentication service, or through the API gateway can be used in a microservice architecture.

API release strategies with API Gateway

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December 22, 2022

API release strategies with API Gateway

In this post, we will explore 3 popular API release strategies that use an API Gateway nowadays.

API gateway deployment patterns

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December 16, 2022

API gateway deployment patterns

In this post, we will go through these patterns and give you an idea to choose the right API gateway deployment pattern for your business

What Are API Gateway Policies?

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December 15, 2022

What Are API Gateway Policies?

There are four commonly used API gateway policies: authentication and authorization, security, traffic processing, and observability, which can configure API gateway behaviors to handle requests.

What Are Microservices?

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December 14, 2022

What Are Microservices?

The microservices architecture gradually replaces the original ones thanks to its benefits like modularity, scalability, deployability, and expandability.

What Is Service Mesh?

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December 9, 2022

What Is Service Mesh?

Service mesh revolutionizes the microservice architecture, and this article briefly introduces the basic concepts, working principle, and the benefits service mesh could bring us.

Why Is APISIX Ingress Controller Better than NGINX Ingress Controller?

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December 6, 2022

Why Is APISIX Ingress Controller Better than NGINX Ingress Controller?

This article mainly compares the basic functionalities of APISIX Ingress and Ingress NGINX. APISIX Ingress is better than Ingress NGINX in terms of scalability, extensibility, and functionality.

Understanding and Using RESTful APIs

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December 2, 2022

Understanding and Using RESTful APIs

This article explains what is RESTful API and how APISIX can help you with RESTful APIs

Leveraging API Gateway for Data Sovereignty and Data Compliance

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November 28, 2022

Leveraging API Gateway for Data Sovereignty and Data Compliance

Using the multi-layer network on API gateway can help multinational companies better handle API data compliance.

API Gateway Authentication

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November 25, 2022

API Gateway Authentication

This article shows the importance of API gateway authentication and how to use APISIX to implement API gateway authentication.

What Is OAuth?

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November 18, 2022

What Is OAuth?

History of OAuth, the working process, authorization process and protocol flow of OAuth, OIDC, and how APISIX supports OAuth and OIDC.

Hashicorp Vault & Apache APISIX: Strengthen Your API Security

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November 15, 2022

Hashicorp Vault & Apache APISIX: Strengthen Your API Security

This article introduces Hashicorp Vault, how Apache APISIX integrates Hashicorp Vault, and some future developing trends between them.

How to Use Gateway API in APISIX Ingress Controller

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November 11, 2022

How to Use Gateway API in APISIX Ingress Controller

This article introduces Kubernetes Gateway API, a specification to expose services outside, and how to use Gateway API in APISIX Ingress Controller.

What Is API Monetization?

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November 11, 2022

What Is API Monetization?

This article introduces API monetization and APISIX's approach to realize API monetization.

Secure APIs in an API Gateway

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November 4, 2022

Secure APIs in an API Gateway

This article introduces API, API security, and some ways of protecting API.

What Is GraphQL?

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November 4, 2022

What Is GraphQL?

This article introduces GraphQL, an API-oriented query language, and how APISIX supports GraphQL.

Why Is APISIX Ingress a Better Choice Compared With Traefik?

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November 4, 2022

Why Is APISIX Ingress a Better Choice Compared With Traefik?

This article introduces the reasons for APISIX Ingress's advantages compared with Traefik.

Performances of the Open-Source API Gateway: APISIX 3.0 and Kong 3.0

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November 3, 2022

Performances of the Open-Source API Gateway: APISIX 3.0 and Kong 3.0

This article presents the performance comparison between Apache APISIX 3.0 and Kong 3.0 by four tests.

Structured error messages for HTTP APIs

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November 2, 2022

Structured error messages for HTTP APIs

Ever since I started to work on the Apache APISIX project, I've been trying to improve my knowledge and understanding of HTTP APIs. Today, I'd like to introduce the "Problem Details for HTTP APIs" RFC, _aka_, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7807[RFC 7807^].

API Gateway Solutions for Automotive Industry

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November 2, 2022

API Gateway Solutions for Automotive Industry

The ebook introduces API7.ai's application in the Automotive industry by showing some use cases from European Factory Platform, Geely Auto, XPeng Motors, and Horizon Robotics.

Apache APISIX Unifies Full Traffic Management with Service Mesh

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October 28, 2022

Apache APISIX Unifies Full Traffic Management with Service Mesh

The article introduces how Apache APISIX unifies full traffic management with Service Mesh around APISIX-based Service Mesh Solution.

Technical Explorations of Open-Source API Gateway Apache APISIX

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October 24, 2022

Technical Explorations of Open-Source API Gateway Apache APISIX

By learning the explorations and innovations of Apache APISIX, we can learn about its data center, hot reloading, and dynamic orchestration of plugins.

How Does APISIX Ingress Support Thousands of Pod Replicas?

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October 21, 2022

How Does APISIX Ingress Support Thousands of Pod Replicas?

This article compares the differences between Endpoints and EndpointSlice, and introduces the way to enable EndpointSlice feature during APISIX Ingress installation.

What Is Service Discovery in Microservices

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October 21, 2022

What Is Service Discovery in Microservices

Comparing the interfacing methods of Apache APISIX and other open-source service discovery systems like Consul, Eureka, and Nacos.

API Gateway Trends behind Features: Apache APISIX 3.0 vs. Kong 3.0

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October 16, 2022

API Gateway Trends behind Features: Apache APISIX 3.0 vs. Kong 3.0

By comparing the open-source API Gateway Apache APISIX and Kong 3.0, Kong significantly improves functions and performance but focuses more on enterprise security compliance, and Apache APISIX 3.0 pays more attention to open source, focusing on the ecosystem and new technology exploration.

Opportunities and Challenges of Technological Evolution in Cloud Native

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October 14, 2022

Opportunities and Challenges of Technological Evolution in Cloud Native

This article introduces the opportunities and challenges brought by the cloud-native trend and introduces the Open Source API gateway and Ingress Controller, respectively.

How Does APISIX Ingress Support Custom Plugins

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October 11, 2022

How Does APISIX Ingress Support Custom Plugins

How to extend features for your K8s Ingress? What Ingress-NGINX can do is limited, while APISIX Ingress has various easy ways to fulfill your needs.

How Does NGINX Reload Work? Why Is NGINX Not Hot-Reloading?

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September 30, 2022

How Does NGINX Reload Work? Why Is NGINX Not Hot-Reloading?

Do you know how NGINX reload works? Read this post to learn its limitations and how to prevent downtime.

Apache APISIX 3.0: 11 Highlights of Open Source API Gateway

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September 22, 2022

Apache APISIX 3.0: 11 Highlights of Open Source API Gateway

The open source API Gateway Apache APISIX version 3.0 is coming! We have selected 11 essential features to give a brief overview.

Rate Limiting in API Management

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September 16, 2022

Rate Limiting in API Management

What is rate limiting? Why do you need it? When would you need it? The best go-to solution with Apache APISIX.

A Coredump Story About NGINX ctx and error_page

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September 16, 2022

A Coredump Story About NGINX ctx and error_page

Recently, we helped an APISIX user debug a strange coredump error. We would like to share some interesting points, providing guidance for debugging NGINX and APISIX.

Alternative to NGINX That Makes Your Life Easier: Apache APISIX

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September 15, 2022

Alternative to NGINX That Makes Your Life Easier: Apache APISIX

Many software engineers and teams used NGINX before, but were annoyed by the bottlenecks and restrictions of NGINX. Is there a better alternative?

Why Is Apache APISIX the Best API Gateway?

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September 13, 2022

Why Is Apache APISIX the Best API Gateway?

We will analyze multiple API gateways in terms of the popularity among developers, their open source licenses, their performances, and the ecosystem as a whole.

What Is an API Gateway, and Why Is It Essential?

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August 30, 2022

What Is an API Gateway, and Why Is It Essential?

What an API gateway is, why it matters in the cloud-native era, and the characteristics of next-generation API gateways.

Best Practices for Building Reliable APIs

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August 18, 2022

Best Practices for Building Reliable APIs

This article discusses best practices for designing reliable APIs by introducing you to a special reverse proxy - API Gateway

Apache APISIX Enhances API Security by CSRF Plugin

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February 23, 2022

Apache APISIX Enhances API Security by CSRF Plugin

This article describes how to secure your API information with the CSRF plugin in API Gateway Apache APISIX.

Traffic Split in Apache APISIX Ingress Controller

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March 27, 2021

Traffic Split in Apache APISIX Ingress Controller

Traffic Split is a feature that splits and deliveries traffic to multiple ...

Get Front-End Test Coverage With Cypress

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March 2, 2021

Get Front-End Test Coverage With Cypress

Background In the article "Stable Product Delivery with Cypress", we discussed why ...

A First Look at Kubernetes Service APIs

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December 18, 2020

A First Look at Kubernetes Service APIs

Preface We know that Kubernetes has a number of solutions for exposing ...

How to Avoid Catastrophic Backtracking in Regex?

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December 17, 2020

How to Avoid Catastrophic Backtracking in Regex?

Catastrophic Backtracking of regular expressions refers to the fact that the regular ...

Envoy and Apache APISIX: Another Way to Implement Envoy Filter

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December 16, 2020

Envoy and Apache APISIX: Another Way to Implement Envoy Filter

Ways to implement Envoy filter Envoy filter Envoy is an L7 proxy ...

How to Implement Plugin Orchestration in API Gateway

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December 14, 2020

How to Implement Plugin Orchestration in API Gateway

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API Gateway Apache APISIX and Kong Selection Comparison

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January 18, 2020

API Gateway Apache APISIX and Kong Selection Comparison

Apache APISIX and Kong are both open source microservice API gateways, so ...

Analysis of Inaccurate Distribution of Wrk Latency

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September 3, 2018

Analysis of Inaccurate Distribution of Wrk Latency

wrk is a great HTTP stress testing tool built on top of ...

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