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ZYLK Achieves Streamlined IoT Services With APISIX Optimization

Case Study

May 26, 2023

ZYLK Achieves Streamlined IoT Services With APISIX Optimization

With APISIX, ZYLK was able to streamline their MQTT routing and provide efficient endpoint management, addressing pain points such as accommodating new users on the network and facing MQTT routing issues, K8S networking-related issues, and HTTP communication issues.

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APISIX Through Unity Group's Eyes: Simple to Use, Powerful, and Enjoyable to Use

Case Study

May 19, 2023

APISIX Through Unity Group's Eyes: Simple to Use, Powerful, and Enjoyable to Use

User-friendly, robust, and delightful - this is the evaluation of APISIX by Lukasz Biegaj, the system architect of Unity Group.

Building a More Robust Apache APISIX Ingress Controller With Litmus Chaos

Technology & Products

May 4, 2023

Building a More Robust Apache APISIX Ingress Controller With Litmus Chaos

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.

One Click for Real-Time Market Services

Customer Story

April 28, 2023

One Click for Real-Time Market Services

“APISIX helped us greatly improve service quality under active-active architecture. Its complete monitoring feature has effectively supported troubleshooting, and updating the service list has become very simple.”

Snowball Finance Transforms Its Active-Active Architecture with APISIX

Case Study

April 28, 2023

Snowball Finance Transforms Its Active-Active Architecture with APISIX

By implementing Apache APISIX, Snowball Finance has upgraded its internal active-active architecture, providing better services for users.

Apache APISIX Authorization Policy: Protect Your APIs

Technology & Products

April 21, 2023

Apache APISIX Authorization Policy: Protect Your APIs

The authorization control policies of Apache APISIX can protect the security of your APIs, and ensure your systems run safely and stably.

Top 10 API Management Trends for 2023

Technology & Products

April 14, 2023

Top 10 API Management Trends for 2023

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

What Is LuaJIT? Why Does APISIX Choose LuaJIT?

Technology & Products

April 14, 2023

What Is LuaJIT? Why Does APISIX Choose LuaJIT?

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

How Apache APISIX Enables Wasm Functionality

Technology & Products

April 7, 2023

How Apache APISIX Enables Wasm Functionality

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

Using SOAP-to-REST to Simplify Migration and Integration

Technology & Products

March 31, 2023

Using SOAP-to-REST to Simplify Migration and Integration

Multiple implementations of SOAP-to-REST and how to use APISIX as a zero-code proxy is introduced.

Build Automotive Intelligent Computing Platform

Customer Story

March 24, 2023

Build Automotive Intelligent Computing Platform

“APISIX meets our requirement on speeding development and iteration. What distinguishes APISIX is its rich plugins, visible configuration, fine-grained verification, abundant features, active community, and high performance.”

Build a Diverse Content Social Media Platform

Customer Story

March 24, 2023

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.”

Establish Streaming Platform with 513 Million MAU

Customer Story

March 24, 2023

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%.”

Support Blockchain as A Service

Customer Story

March 24, 2023

Support Blockchain as A Service

“Apache APISIX supports multiple protocols, saving great R&D costs and endowing our platform with endless vitality.”

Empower Global Payment without Borders

Customer Story

March 24, 2023

Empower Global Payment without Borders

“Airwallex has made a smooth transition to multi-cloud and microservices architectures thanks to API7 commercial support: a highly optimized and scalable platform and the support of the developer community!”

Create Leading Mobile Phone Manufacturer

Customer Story

March 24, 2023

Create Leading Mobile Phone Manufacturer

“API7 solution performs surprisingly well in its practice in production scenarios. We love its high availability, high performance, and rich functionality, allowing us to build and grow our business in a cloud-native way.”

Make Secure Online Meeting Platform

Customer Story

March 24, 2023

Make Secure Online Meeting Platform

“After adopting APISIX Ingress Controller, it is easier for developers to add configurations on the gateway than to write codes.”

Build All-in-One Digital Assets Platform

Customer Story

March 24, 2023

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.”

etcd vs PostgreSQL

Technology & Products

March 17, 2023

etcd vs PostgreSQL

Analysis of the differences between etcd and PostgreSQL from their historical background, data models, client interfaces, storage, distributed computing, and maintenance

How to Prevent Sensitive Data From Leaking in API Gateway

Technology & Products

March 3, 2023

How to Prevent Sensitive Data From Leaking in API Gateway

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

Transforming Log Plugins to Enhance Observability

Technology & Products

February 24, 2023

Transforming Log Plugins to Enhance Observability

APISIX provides many log plugins to enhance the observability and system stability of API gateway.

Why Do Microservices Need an API Gateway

Ecosystem

February 17, 2023

Why Do Microservices Need an API Gateway

In the microservices architecture, API gateway is of increasing importance.

APISIX Motivates API Gateway Upgrade in Tencent BlueKing

Case Study

February 13, 2023

APISIX Motivates API Gateway Upgrade in Tencent BlueKing

Tencent BlueKing compares Kong, Tyk, and APISIX and finally chooses APISIX as its essencial part of the infrastructure.

APISIX: Migrate etcd Operation From HTTP to gRPC

Technology & Products

February 10, 2023

APISIX: Migrate etcd Operation From HTTP to gRPC

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

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud API Management: Challenges and Choices

Technology & Products

February 6, 2023

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud API Management: Challenges and Choices

This blog introduces the status quo of API management on multi-cloud and hybrid cloud and gives some better choices under such situation.

1s to 10ms: Reducing Prometheus Delay in API Gateway

Technology & Products

January 31, 2023

1s to 10ms: Reducing Prometheus Delay in API Gateway

Prometheus plugins often cause long tail requests, but APISIX can solve this problem and reduces the delay from 1s to 10ms.

"inspect": Apache APISIX Lua Dynamic Debugging Plugin

Technology & Products

January 29, 2023

"inspect": Apache APISIX Lua Dynamic Debugging Plugin

Apache APISIX's inspect plugin is beneficial in troubleshooting, printing blocked logs, and learning Lua code by debugging.

How to Use Secret Manager with API Gateway

Technology & Products

January 13, 2023

How to Use Secret Manager with API Gateway

Using a Secret Manager can effectively improve the security and stability of the API Gateway, which Apache APISIX fully supports.

Financial Practices of Facilitating Cloud-Native Transformation Using APISIX as API Gateway

Case Study

January 13, 2023

Financial Practices of Facilitating Cloud-Native Transformation Using APISIX as API Gateway

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

API Gateway Architecture of Amber Group

Case Study

January 6, 2023

API Gateway Architecture of Amber Group

Amber Group uses APISIX as its API gateway to improve developing efficiency and manage traffic of its flagship digital asset platform WhaleFin.

APISIX: Be FIPS 140-2 Compliant

Technology & Products

January 6, 2023

APISIX: Be FIPS 140-2 Compliant

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

APISIX Greatly Improved Junrunrenli's R&D Efficiency

Case Study

December 12, 2022

APISIX Greatly Improved Junrunrenli's R&D Efficiency

Junrunrenli Human Resources accomplished high-efficient and time-saving development and traffic management by APISIX.

Why Do You Need Apache APISIX When Using Amazon Lambda

Ecosystem

December 9, 2022

Why Do You Need Apache APISIX When Using Amazon Lambda

Keeping pace with cloud-natice trends, APISIX supports serverless computing by providing serverless, azure-functions, openwhisk, and openfunction plugins.

How Does vivo Integrate with APISIX

Case Study

November 25, 2022

How Does vivo Integrate with APISIX

How does the famous mobile manufacturer vivo adopt APISIX as its API gateway and adjust it to fit its businesses?

Open Source from Scratch, A Yearly Summary of Our Contributor Workshops

Team & Community

November 14, 2022

Open Source from Scratch, A Yearly Summary of Our Contributor Workshops

In 2022, we have hosted 12 contributor workshops to guide people on becoming an open-source project contributor. This article is a yearly summary.

Performances of the Open-Source API Gateway: APISIX 3.0 and Kong 3.0

Technology & Products

November 3, 2022

Performances of the Open-Source API Gateway: APISIX 3.0 and Kong 3.0

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

API Gateway Solutions for Automotive Industry

Technology & Products

November 2, 2022

API Gateway Solutions for Automotive Industry

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.

Apache APISIX Unifies Full Traffic Management with Service Mesh

Technology & Products

October 28, 2022

Apache APISIX Unifies Full Traffic Management with Service Mesh

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

Leverage Amazon for Apache APISIX's Ecosystem and Growth

Ecosystem

October 26, 2022

Leverage Amazon for Apache APISIX's Ecosystem and Growth

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.

Technical Explorations of Open-Source API Gateway Apache APISIX

Technology & Products

October 24, 2022

Technical Explorations of Open-Source API Gateway Apache APISIX

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

How Does NGINX Reload Work? Why Is NGINX Not Hot-Reloading?

Technology & Products

September 30, 2022

How Does NGINX Reload Work? Why Is NGINX Not Hot-Reloading?

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

What Is gRPC? How to Work With APISIX?

Ecosystem

September 28, 2022

What Is gRPC? How to Work With APISIX?

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.

Apache APISIX 3.0: 11 Highlights of Open Source API Gateway

Technology & Products

September 22, 2022

Apache APISIX 3.0: 11 Highlights of Open Source API Gateway

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

Give Up Spring Cloud Gateway! How Huanbei, a Fintech APP, Utilizes Apache APISIX

Case Study

September 21, 2022

Give Up Spring Cloud Gateway! How Huanbei, a Fintech APP, Utilizes Apache APISIX

Spring Cloud Gateway used to be a decent choice, but recently HuanBei abandoned it and started using Apache APISIX. Why, and how?

Rate Limiting in API Management

Technology & Products

September 16, 2022

Rate Limiting in API Management

What is rate limiting? Why do you need it? When would you need it? The best go-to solution with Apache APISIX.

Alternative to NGINX That Makes Your Life Easier: Apache APISIX

Technology & Products

September 15, 2022

Alternative to NGINX That Makes Your Life Easier: Apache APISIX

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

Why Is Apache APISIX the Best API Gateway?

Technology & Products

September 13, 2022

Why Is Apache APISIX the Best API Gateway?

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 Is an API Gateway, and Why Is It Essential?

Technology & Products

August 30, 2022

What Is an API Gateway, and Why Is It Essential?

What an API gateway is, why it matters in the cloud-native era, and the characteristics of next-generation API gateways.

Best Practices for Building Reliable APIs

Technology & Products

August 18, 2022

Best Practices for Building Reliable APIs

This article discusses best practices for designing reliable APIs by introducing you to a special reverse proxy - API Gateway

How Is the Azure ARM Architecture Server Perform?

Ecosystem

August 8, 2022

How Is the Azure ARM Architecture Server Perform?

This article uses API Gateway Apache APISIX to compare the performance of Azure Ddsv5 and Azure Dpdsv5 in network IO-intensive scenarios.

Why Would You Choose Apache APISIX Instead of NGINX or Kong

Technology & Products

July 30, 2022

Why Would You Choose Apache APISIX Instead of NGINX or Kong

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.

How APISIX Facilitates Localized Deployment of Beeto Social Media Platform in the Middle East

Case Study

June 14, 2022

How APISIX Facilitates Localized Deployment of Beeto Social Media Platform in the Middle East

The Apache APISIX gateway helps Beeto realize localized deployment, unified management, and operation and maintenance-friendly scenarios in the Middle East.

How Is AWS Graviton3 Performing?

Ecosystem

June 7, 2022

How Is AWS Graviton3 Performing?

Uses APISIX to compare the performance of AWS Graviton3 and Graviton2. AWS Graviton3 shows the power performance in the API gateway.

How to Integrate API Gateway and Consul?

Ecosystem

February 25, 2022

How to Integrate API Gateway and Consul?

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

Apache APISIX Enhances API Security by CSRF Plugin

Technology & Products

February 23, 2022

Apache APISIX Enhances API Security by CSRF Plugin

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

How to Build an Apache APISIX Plugin From 0 to 1?

Ecosystem

February 16, 2022

How to Build an Apache APISIX Plugin From 0 to 1?

Over the past few months, community users have added many plugins to ...

Integrating Splunk HTTP Event Collector With Apache APISIX

Ecosystem

February 10, 2022

Integrating Splunk HTTP Event Collector With Apache APISIX

The complexity of systems is increasing as technology iterates and enterprise architecture ...

Forward-Auth, Another Choice for Authentication Function

Ecosystem

January 26, 2022

Forward-Auth, Another Choice for Authentication Function

Forward Auth cleverly moves the authentication and authorization logic to a dedicated ...

Integrating Apache APISIX With gRPC-Web

Ecosystem

January 25, 2022

Integrating Apache APISIX With gRPC-Web

gRPC Web Introduction Originally developed by Google, gRPC is a high-performance remote ...

HashiCorp Vault Secure Storage Backend in Apache APISIX Ecosystem

Ecosystem

January 24, 2022

HashiCorp Vault Secure Storage Backend in Apache APISIX Ecosystem

With the rise of microservice-based architecture, keeping things secure has become much ...

Using Apache APISIX and Authing to Implement Centralized Authentication Management

Ecosystem

January 4, 2022

Using Apache APISIX and Authing to Implement Centralized Authentication Management

Introduction About Apache APISIX Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API ...

Apache APISIX Integrates With Open Policy Agent to Enrich its Ecosystem

Ecosystem

December 24, 2021

Apache APISIX Integrates With Open Policy Agent to Enrich its Ecosystem

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source lightweight general-purpose policy engine ...

Apache APISIX Integrates with Google Cloud Logging to Improve Log Processing

Ecosystem

December 22, 2021

Apache APISIX Integrates with Google Cloud Logging to Improve Log Processing

Logging is an important infrastructure for distributed systems. It can help developers ...

Apache APISIX's Integration With Azure Serverless

Ecosystem

December 1, 2021

Apache APISIX's Integration With Azure Serverless

Apache APISIX provides support for serverless frameworks for popular cloud vendors (more ...

Cloud Monitoring With Datadog in Apache APISIX

Ecosystem

November 12, 2021

Cloud Monitoring With Datadog in Apache APISIX

As the complexity of IT products and consumer-facing application development increases, monitoring ...

How Airwallex Empowers Global Payment Using Apache APISIX?

Case Study

November 3, 2021

How Airwallex Empowers Global Payment Using Apache APISIX?

Airwallex resolves technical challenges that data sovereignty brings and makes intelligent routing solutions with the help of Apache APISIX.

How to Use Apache APISIX Auth With Okta

Ecosystem

September 7, 2021

How to Use Apache APISIX Auth With Okta

Using the Apache APISIX OpenID Connect plugin for centralized identity authentication.

Using the Apache APISIX OpenID Connect Plugin for Centralized Identity Authentication

Ecosystem

September 7, 2021

Using the Apache APISIX OpenID Connect Plugin for Centralized Identity Authentication

Using the Apache APISIX OpenID Connect plugin to configure Okta authentication is ...

iQIYI Unlocks API Gateway Innovation with Apache APISIX

Case Study

September 7, 2021

iQIYI Unlocks API Gateway Innovation with Apache APISIX

iQIYI's technical team compares APISIX with Kong, and updates and integrates iQIYI's infrastructure to successfully build a bran-new API gateway.

Contributors — The Golden Metric of OpenSource Projects

Uncategorized

August 14, 2021

Contributors — The Golden Metric of OpenSource Projects

According to GitHub’s statistics in 2020, over 60 million new repositories were ...

API Gateway for Web3: How APISIX Empowers Hyperchain

Case Study

August 9, 2021

API Gateway for Web3: How APISIX Empowers Hyperchain

How the blockchain unicorn company-Hyperchain uses APISIX, an open-source api gateway, to empower the Hyperchain Blockchain Platform to manage blockchain traffic in web3, mentioning the comparison among APISIX, Kong, and NGINX.

API Gateway Practice in Tencent With Apache APISIX

Case Study

May 24, 2021

API Gateway Practice in Tencent With Apache APISIX

This article introduces what a gateway is and its improvement to the traditional service architecture, and the implementation of APISIX within Tencent.

Get Front-End Test Coverage With Cypress

Technology & Products

March 2, 2021

Get Front-End Test Coverage With Cypress

Background In the article "Stable Product Delivery with Cypress", we discussed why ...

Install Apache APISIX From Helm Charts

Ecosystem

February 26, 2021

Install Apache APISIX From Helm Charts

A few days ago, API7.ai released an online Helm Charts repository. Users ...

Stable Product Delivery With Cypress

Ecosystem

February 7, 2021

Stable Product Delivery With Cypress

The Apache APISIX Dashboard is designed to make it as easy as ...

xRPC Will Be Released, Get More Details About APISIX Ecosystem

Ecosystem

January 21, 2021

xRPC Will Be Released, Get More Details About APISIX Ecosystem

As business scenarios and requirements become more complex and diverse, more and ...

Envoy and Apache APISIX: Another Way to Implement Envoy Filter

Technology & Products

December 16, 2020

Envoy and Apache APISIX: Another Way to Implement Envoy Filter

Ways to implement Envoy filter Envoy filter Envoy is an L7 proxy ...

How to Implement Plugin Orchestration in API Gateway

Technology & Products

December 14, 2020

How to Implement Plugin Orchestration in API Gateway

Watch Video First let me introduce myself. I am Ming Wen, the ...

Why Beike, the Popular Housing Platform, Chooses Apache APISIX

Case Study

December 11, 2020

Why Beike, the Popular Housing Platform, Chooses Apache APISIX

Beike uses Apache APISIX as the API gateway on production. As a data-driven company, millions of production traffic go through the API gateway daily, and Apache APISIX is providing stable and outstanding performance.

Application of API Gateway Apache APISIX in 360

Case Study

December 11, 2020

Application of API Gateway Apache APISIX in 360

Today, I share an article about Apache APISIX, which describes the implementation ...

From 0 to 1: Apache APISIX's Apache Way

Uncategorized

December 16, 2019

From 0 to 1: Apache APISIX's Apache Way

Apache APISIX is a very young project, open source in June this ...

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