“APISIX is fully open-source with a robust ecosystem, enabling seamless traffic recording and management without impacting user experience.”
Zemiao Yang
,
Backend Engineer at Tencent Timi Studio Group
and 3 million concurrent online users
is operated stably an effortlessly
TiMi is a subsidiary of Tencent Games and the developer of several popular mobile games, including Call of Duty: Mobile, Pokémon Unite, Arena of Valor, and Honor of Kings.
Honor of Kings is one of the world's most popular MOBA mobile games. As of December 2023, it has recorded up to 160 million daily active users, 3 million concurrent online users, over 3.8 billion downloads, and over 300 million registered users. In May 2017, it topped the global mobile game revenue chart.
It encountered several technical challenges while building its business-oriented API gateway.
The Tencent Timi Studio Group developed a customized API gateway based on APISIX, TAPISIX, adding a series of plugins designed for their internal technical environment.
APISIX provides features: routing, rate limiting, load balancing, service discovery, and observability, offering end-to-end API management capabilities. Timi can use APISIX to manage APIs' entire lifecycle, improving API management efficiency and standardization.
APISIX integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes, which perfectly suits Tencent Timi's environment. Besides, thanks to the scalability of APISIX, Timi can customize its own API gateway based on APISIX by adding a series of plugins designed for their internal technical environment.
Timi's overseas business infrastructure requires frequent migrations, and all data and components must be migratable. APISIX's architecture and features align with this requirement, allowing Timi to easily migrate its API gateway services during overseas business transitions without impacting existing services.
As a top-level project under the Apache Software Foundation, APISIX boasts a large and active open-source community. Timi can leverage the community's resources, such as documentation, tutorials, and plugins, to start APISIX quickly.
Tencent Timi has successfully deployed APISIX by utilizing the standalone mode, which eliminates reliance on etcd, making it suitable for overseas scenarios where some cloud providers do not offer etcd services.
The official APISIX Helm Chart templates Kubernetes configuration files, significantly simplifying configuration management.
The team has achieved comprehensive end-to-end observability across their entire system, including metrics and log collecting, tracing, and monitoring. It helps the team quickly identify and resolve issues, ensuring the smooth operation of their services.
Para solucionar el problema de la gestión inconveniente de servicios y la costosa inversión en I+D, implementamos APISIX como nuestra puerta de enlace de API. El rendimiento dinámico de APISIX con etcd se alinea perfectamente con los requisitos del producto de Beeto.
APISIX nos ayudó enormemente a mejorar la calidad del servicio bajo una arquitectura activa-activa. Su completa función de monitoreo ha respaldado eficazmente la resolución de problemas, y actualizar la lista de servicios se ha vuelto muy sencillo.
La solución API7 se desempeña sorprendentemente bien en su aplicación en escenarios de producción. Nos encanta su alta disponibilidad, alto rendimiento y funcionalidad rica, lo que nos permite construir y hacer crecer nuestro negocio de manera nativa en la nube.