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Learn how to set up and configure an API gateway with Apache APISIX, including routing, rate limiting, and authentication.

Learn how to configure Apache APISIX for secure authentication using OAuth 2.0, JWT, and OIDC. Includes complete configuration examples and best practices.

Learn how to implement robust traffic control strategies using API gateways to ensure API availability, performance, and security. Explore rate limiting, quotas, circuit breaking, and more.

Learn how API gateways integrate with GitOps to automate API configuration, improve version control, and enhance deployment workflows in cloud-native environments.

Learn how to implement A/B testing and canary releases with an API gateway like Apache APISIX. Discover best practices, traffic routing, and rollback strategies for safer, data-driven API deployments.

Learn how to deploy and configure an API gateway on Kubernetes. Discover best practices, configuration examples, and troubleshooting tips for setting up a robust API gateway solution.

Learn how cloud-native API gateways integrate with Kubernetes to provide scalable, secure, and efficient API management. Explore best practices, architecture patterns, and real-world use cases.

Learn the complete lifecycle of an API request in an API gateway, from client request to response. Understand key processing stages such as authentication, rate limiting, and response transformation.

Learn the key differences between the control plane and data plane in API gateways, how they interact, and best practices for ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.

Learn how to design a highly available API Gateway by optimizing the data plane and control plane separately. Explore best practices for load balancing, database redundancy, and fallback mechanisms to ensure seamless API traffic management.

Learn how API gateway requirements change between monolithic and microservices architectures. Explore deployment models, performance considerations, and popular choices like NGINX, Spring Cloud Gateway, Kong, and Apache APISIX.

Explore the key architectural components of an API gateway, including routing, upstream management, plugin systems, and configuration synchronization. Learn how leading API gateways like Apache APISIX and Kong structure their internal design.

A detailed architectural and functional comparison of five leading open-source API gateways—Apache APISIX, Kong, Traefik, KrakenD, and Tyk—covering extensibility, configuration, observability, and best use cases.

This comprehensive guide delves into the fundamental components of api gateways—Service, route, upstream, Plugin, and Consumer.

This article explores the key technology choices for building an API gateway, comparing NGINX, Envoy, Java (Spring Cloud Gateway), and Go-based solutions.

This article explores the differences between API gateway and service mesh, explaining their roles, use cases, and emerging trends like Gateway API.

This article provides an in-depth comparison between open-source and commercial API gateways, analyzing their advantages, limitations, and best use cases. It helps engineers and decision-makers select the best solution based on flexibility, cost, support, and scalability requirements.

This article explores the key functionalities of an API Gateway, including authentication, rate limiting, caching, logging, and request transformation. It provides insights into how these features enhance security, performance, and scalability in modern API-driven architectures.

Learn how API gateways improve microservices architecture by enhancing service decoupling and traffic management. This guide covers key concepts, best practices, and real-world use cases for achieving a more resilient and scalable backend system.

This article explains the key differences between API gateways, reverse proxies, and load balancers. It covers their functionalities, use cases, and best practices, helping engineers choose the right tool for their architecture.

API gateways streamline microservices by managing requests, enhancing security, and improving scalability, serving as a unified entry point for clients.

Explore the causes of DeepSeek API instability and how API gateways can optimize and secure AI-driven applications.

Discover why API Gateways are essential for modern architectures like microservices, serverless, and multi-cloud environments. Learn how they enhance security, scalability, and API management.

Learn what an API gateway is, how it works, and why it's essential for modern application architectures. Explore real-world use cases, best practices, and performance benchmarks.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The traditional financial company, Essence Securities, selects Apache APISIX as its API gateway, integrating with its diverse plugins and ecosystems.

Based on the top open-source Apache project APISIX, API7.ai has achieved commercial success by providing reliable services and products.

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.

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.

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 Apache APISIX and its plugins for AWS, how APISIX performs using AWS processors, and how API7 Cloud leverages Amazon to achieve rapid growth.

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

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.

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

gRPC is a modern open-source, high-performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. We implement a gRPC client in the OpenResty ecosystem.

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.

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.

This article describes how to start your journey into observability and use end-to-end tracing with OpenTelemetry.

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 uses Apache APISIX to compare the performance of Google, AWS, and Azure ARM-based servers in network IO-intensive scenarios.

This article will walk you through the process of implementing Consul service discovery and service registry in APISIX.

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