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Learn how to use API7 Enterprise to set alerts and quickly push alert notifications to commonly used IM systems through Webhook notifications.

Discover how Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, Kong, and APISIX stack up in terms of costs, free tiers, and key factors impacting your budget.

In the digital age, APIs play a crucial role, but they also require maintenance and checks to ensure stability and security. Learn about the importance and steps of API testing to enhance performance and ensure security.

Learn how to enhance development efficiency with real-time API call log monitoring using the APISIX http-logger plugin.

Explore the technical intricacies of implementing user custom domains in SaaS platforms, addressing TLS certificate management and multi-tenant systems for enhanced security and personalized user experiences.

Understand how implementing API degradation strategies at the gateway level can enhance system fault tolerance and stability, ensuring continuity of core business operations.

Discover the three strategies for enhancing the high availability of microservices: rate limiting, circuit breaker, and degradation, and how to realize these strategies in Apache APISIX.

Discover the evolution of identity authentication mechanisms, from traditional LDAP integration to modern protocols like OIDC and CAS.

Discover the significance of logging in API gateway management. Learn how logging aids in monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and security protection for a robust and efficient system.

Understand distributed tracing technology, optimize microservices architecture, tackle performance bottlenecks, and enhance system stability and observability.

Learn how to improve the observability of APIs through log analysis to quickly locate problems and optimize system performance.

Discover key considerations on deploying APISIX in Kubernetes to ensure stability and reliability in deployment.

Discover LDAP single sign-on and API gateway, and the importance of integrating them and the value they bring to your business.

Let's compare the deployment cost of Amazon API Gateway and open-source API gateway, thus choosing the API gateway that suits your project to enhance performance and save costs.

Explore identity authentication practices in application engineering, including token-based authentication, JWT, OpenID Connect, API gateways and mobile applications.

Learn how technicians and business users choose, as well as key factors, and a guide to key decisions to improve system efficiency and security.

Learn how to leverage metrics monitoring to optimize API performance, ensuring stable operations and swift detection of potential issues.

Explore the key challenges and solutions in enterprise digital transformation, where API gateways play a crucial role in microservices architecture, security, and performance optimization.

Let's explore how to achieve intelligent routing and dynamic service management in microservices architecture, enhancing system reliability, and scalability, and simplifying deployment and operations.

Understanding how API orchestration optimizes business logic, enhances development efficiency, and boosts system stability in microservices architecture.

Gain insight into how enterprises effectively manage API keys in the digital age to ensure data security and business continuity.

Explore the performance disparity between NGINX and APISIX in web servers, based on real-world stress tests.

Discover the power of Server-Sent Events (SSE) for real-time data updates and its benefits like reduced network load and automatic reconnection.

Compare Apache APISIX and IBM DataPower API Gateway to explore differences in open-source nature, flexibility, and modern architecture, assisting you in selecting the most suitable API gateway solution.

To facilitate secure and convenient access between the DMZ and the internal network, APISIX can be employed to manage API calls.

Let's learn how to use APISIX ensure secure and reliable cross-origin access through CORS plugins and reverse proxy.

Let’s take a deeper look at APISIX’s multi-layer caching mechanism, including the LRU and shared memory dictionary cache.

Understand the key role of API gateway in enterprises and grasp the best practices for determining resources needed for API gateways.

Preventing CSRF attacks necessitates a multifaceted approach, incorporating various techniques across server-side, browser, HTTP protocol, and more to achieve comprehensive protection.

Let's delve into the powerful value of API First and how enterprises practice API design and management in the journey of digital transformation.

Explore the transformative journey of API Economy and learn about the crucial role of API Gateway in ensuring security and stability for future-proof API services.

Explore the robust stability and fault tolerance features of Apache APISIX, including its unique architecture, efficient data synchronization, and multi-node deployment strategy for uninterrupted API services.

Learn about the application of artificial intelligence in business and discover how AI agents optimize workflows.

Due to the intricate nature of our technology stack, obtaining the client IP involves employing various methods, sometimes in combination.

API7, a leading API management platform, provides enterprises with an effective and flexible permission management solution through its refined RBAC strategies.

Service discovery provides robust support for the construction of distributed systems, offering not only flexibility and elasticity but also streamlining the entire development.

As the digital era unfolds, the proliferation and intricacy of internal Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in enterprises continue to grow. To effectively steer these APIs, companies are turning to internal API asset management.

This article will introduce how to configure and use Prometheus in Apache APISIX and recommend some common indicator configurations.

Delve into the intricacies of forward proxy and the network protocols behind HTTPS traffic and proxy servers.

Let's explore how APISIX, an open-source API gateway, employs robust health check mechanisms, actively and passively monitoring nodes.

Compare APISIX and API7 Enterprise and dive into its unique advantages in comprehensive API lifecycle management.

Explore the distinct roles of ESB and API gateway in enterprise integration and make informed decisions to construct agile and resilient distributed systems.

Explore the crucial role of API gateway in modern software development, including connecting, filtering, governing, and integrating APIs.

Learn how to use strategies like SSL/TLS encryption and API key management to effectively prevent the risk of sensitive data leakage, ensuring the security of your business data.

Discover how to enhance API stability through optimizing alert configuration, ensuring smooth business operations.

Let's explore the unique functionalities of web servers, service mesh, and API gateways in microservices architectures.

Explore the challenges of implementing rate limiting in GraphQL APIs, understand the roles of reverse proxies and API gateways, and learn how to calculate and apply query costs for optimizing service performance.

Explore the high availability architecture of the API7 solution, ensuring the continuity of B2B API services and the stability of your business.

Let's learn 6 best practices for securing your AI apps by API gateway, thus effectively addressing security challenges.

Understanding key governance points, such as API calls, full lifecycle management, standardized design, access control, and monitoring optimization to ensure API stability, security, and efficiency.

APISIX does not compromise the response time of other normal requests due to the extended response time of certain requests.

This article provides effective methods for measuring APISIX latency and determining the source of network congestion through a process of elimination.

Let's explore GraphQL, address software engineering challenges, optimize data transmission, enhance efficiency, and build highly customizable APIs.

As we approach 2024, API7.ai has identified 8 key trends in API management to help you anticipate and navigate future API market dynamics.

Let's unravel the significance of API gateways in the digital world.

Gain insights into effective API management strategies crucial for the successful implementation and utilization of Generative AI.

Let's explore how to implement resilient APIs efficiently with a focus on fallback strategies using the APISIX API Gateway.

This article explores 10 common API resilience design patterns and how they can be implemented using APISIX.

Seize the future with an API-first strategy—the foundation for thriving in the digital age.

In this blog post, we'll explore OWASP Top 10 threats and learn how APISIX can protect against them with examples.

This article explores what the AI trend means for those of us developing products using APIs.

A guide on using the new APISIX Declarative CLI to manage APISIX with declarative configuration files.

API7.ai hosted a tech talk on August 30th, with a panel of industry experts providing valuable insights into API monetization and API portal.

According to Gartner, full lifecycle API management is transitioning to API management. Is it true? Let's see Ming Wen's perspectives.

This article explores the best practices to handle API-breaking changes with API Gateway.

See what API gateway and API management are, and explore their relationships and differences.

In today's digital world, the API economy plays an important role in driving collaboration and innovation. API7 Portal is a platform that enables businesses to thrive in the API Economy.

This post will guide you through building a full-stack authentication app with Apache APISIX, Authgear, and OIDC (OpenID Connect).

API7 Portal, advanced and intelligent with AI capabilities, can be your best choice if you want to buy an API portal.

Let's learn the reasons behind sticky sessions, available alternatives, and how to implement them via Apache APISIX.

Gain insights into API Health Check metrics with Apache APISIX and Prometheus.

Utilizing the API7 Portal can assist users in accurately and effortlessly monitoring API performance and availability metrics.

This post guides you direct method of developing a ChatGPT Plugin for API Gateway.

10 best practices for using APIs in digital government, based on national examples from around the globe.

In this article, we will explore how to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT APIs with a Spring Boot application and manage the APIs using Apache APISIX.

Apache APISIX is generally used to manage north-south traffic in Kubernetes and often sits at the edge of a cluster. With Amesh, APISIX is now a service mesh.

Taking a look under Apache APISIX's hood to understand how it achieves ultimate performance.

This article will guide you through the process of developing a new custom plugin called file-proxy for APISIX using Lua and ChatGPT.

APISIX can integrate Vault to realize SSL certificate management, allowing for secure storage and management of SSL certificates.

A comprehensive comparison of API gateways, Kubernetes gateways, and service meshes with actionable insights.

In this post, you’ll learn how to build a custom simple login flow and pages on UI to secure your application using Appsmith, Apache APISIX, and JWT.

In this article, we will create a custom plugin for Apache APISIX API Gateway to handle client requests that should be called in sequence.

In this article, we will discuss how to enable the Role-based access control (RBAC) authorization model.

Chaos engineering is a powerful tool for ensuring system reliability and performance, and its application in designing Chaos experiments for Ingress Controllers can help organizations identify weaknesses in their applications and infrastructure.

In this article, we'll explore how to implement batch request processing in Apache APISIX and look at some use cases where it can be beneficial.

The authorization control policies of Apache APISIX can protect the security of your APIs, and ensure your systems run safely and stably.

This post explores how API Gateway can be beneficial for ChatGPT plugin developers to expose, secure, manage, and monitor their API endpoints.

10 major trends in API management: API security, standardization, cloud-based API management solutions, low-code API platforms, API marketplaces, emerging API protocols, AI and APIs, developer experience, API analytics, and serverless architecture

In this article, you will learn how to dynamically route client requests to the responsible backend services based on the JWT token's claim.

Multiple implementations of SOAP-to-REST and how to use APISIX as a zero-code proxy is introduced.

By implementing an API gateway layer in front of Kafka, Apache APISIX offers a range of benefits that enhance the security of Kafka's API while simultaneously reducing the overall cost for developers.

This post walks you through the 3 key API product lifecycle stages such as create, control, and consume and explores why API Gateway is important in each lifecycle stage.

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.

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

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

Comparing API Gateway and load balancer to help readers better understand their roles in system architecture.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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^].

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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