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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.

Unleash the power of API7 Enterprise 3.0! Experience GraphQL plugin support, seamless SOAP integration, traffic labeling, gateway group releases, declarative APIs, and enhanced token management.

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.

API7 Enterprise complies with the rigorous FIPS, elevating enterprises' data security to new heights.

API7 Portal provides unparalleled API solutions that simplify and streamline your API development process, making it more efficient and secure.

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.

Leveraging API7 Portal, enterprises can maximize the potential of APIs and generate revenue through effective API monetization strategies.

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.

API7 Enterprise supports a new plugin called "traffic-label", allowing more flexible and precise traffic control.

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.

The latest version of API7 Enterprise Edition can now support and integrate with SOAP, providing you with a perfect solution.

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

APISIX, a cloud-native API gateway, chooses LuaJIT as its technology stack due to its high flexibility and performance.

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

APISIX supports Wasm at the gateway level, allowing developers to use high-level programming languages to create Wasm plugins.

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.

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 fully 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

Many companies used to use Nginx or Kong as their API gateway but switched to Apache APISIX now. As an Open Source API Gateway, Apache APISIX solves a lot of pain points for businesses.

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

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