Build a Diverse Content Social Media Platform
“To fix the problem of inconvenient service management and costly R&D investment, we introduced APISIX as our API gateway. APISIX's dynamic performance with etcd aligns most with Beeto's product requirements.”
Lilin Hu
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Director of R&D at Beeto
20% cost savings
in migrating from monolith to microservices
40% less system interaction
with APISIX
Challenges
Beeto is an Arab-targeted multi-diverse content, social media platform and community with Arabic trending, hashtags, top influencers, and videos.
It was ever ranked No. 4 on the Top List of the Saudi Arabian iOS App Store, surpassing veteran social platform giant Facebook. However, it faced some challenges when growing:
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The use of a monolithic service architecture leads to high maintenance and operational costs.
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The architecture involves complex deployment and service calls, with multiple technology stacks involved.
Solution
APISIX has been implemented as the primary API gateway in the architecture deployment, responsible for handling all traffic. The gateway routes and forwards north-south traffic while also managing east-west traffic for services on the intranet.
Competitive Edge of Our Solution
Multiple Extension Tools
The APISIX gateway cluster offers a range of extension tools, including a registry center, service control, service monitoring, protocol forwarding, and plugins for all services.
Various Policies
Apache APISIX can handle various policies at the gateway level, including authentication, service forwarding, and health checks.
Dynamic Service Forwarding
Apache APISIX significantly aids Beeto in terms of dynamic service forwarding.
Results
Save Costs
By unifying north-south and east-west traffic, APISIX has helped Beeto save on resources and workforce costs, while enabling dynamic and unified management.
Simplify Architecture
The deployment architecture has been simplified, lowering interaction between the gateway and users.
Efficient Management
APISIX's multiple extension plugins have facilitated efficient management of permission verification, route distribution, and health checks for services.
Developer-Friendly
APISIX's ability to dynamically launch and migrate services has been developer-friendly.
More Customer Stories
Build All-in-One Digital Assets Platform
API7 commercial support is great for security control and comprehensive support. We chose API7 also because it is marvelous at supporting k8s.
Support Blockchain as A Service
Apache APISIX supports multiple protocols, saving great R&D costs and endowing our platform with endless vitality.
Establish Streaming Platform with 513 Million MAU
After comparing some mainstream gateway products, we find that the response latency of Apache APISIX is more than 50% lower than other gateways, and Apache APISIX can still run stably when the CPU reaches more than 70%.