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Apisix

Apisix is an open-source, cloud-native API Gateway and AI Gateway designed to streamline API management for microservices. With robust traffic management capabilities and a rich plugin ecosystem, it empowers developers to build secure and scalable systems.

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About Apisix

Apache Apisix builds on NGINX and etcd to offer dynamic routing, load balancing, canary releases, and hot plugin updates without restarts. It supports a variety of protocols including HTTP, gRPC, and MQTT, and provides essential security plugins such as JWT, Key Auth, and OpenID Connect. The tool is optimized for performance with minimal latency and scales seamlessly across bare-metal, Kubernetes, and ARM64 environments.

Key Features

  • Open-source and community-driven
  • Dynamic routing and hot plugin loading
  • High-performance with minimal latency
  • Robust security with multiple authentication plugins
  • Supports multi-platform deployments (bare-metal, Kubernetes, ARM64)

Summary

Apache Apisix excels in managing high-volume API traffic through dynamic configurations and an extensive plugin ecosystem. Its design prioritizes performance and security, making it an ideal solution for modern microservices architectures.

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Mar 9, 2025Updated•1 min read
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Tech Stack

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NodeJS