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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 to help users proxy applications deployed in the Kubernetes cluster conveniently.

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.

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

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 dramatically supports.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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