Recent Posts

Free tier API with Apache APISIX

Author: Nicolas Frankel Original post on Foojay: Read More Lots of service providers offer a free tier of their service. The idea is to let you kick their service’s tires freely. If you need to go above the free tier at any point, you’ll likely stay on the service and pay. In this day and age, most services are online …

Read More »

Differentiating rate limits in Apache APISIX

Author: Nicolas Frankel Original post on Foojay: Read More In my talk Evolving your APIs, I mention that an API Gateways is a Reverse Proxy “on steroids”. One key difference between the former and the latter is that the API Gateway is not unfriendly to business logic. The poster child is rate-limiting. Rate-limiting is an age-old Reverse Proxy feature focused …

Read More »

Random and fixed routes with Apache APISIX

Author: Nicolas Frankel Original post on Foojay: Read More My ideas for blog posts inevitably start to dry up after over two years at Apache APISIX. Hence, I did some triage on the APISIX repo. I stumbled upon this one question: We have a requirement to use a plugin, where we need to route the traffic on percentage basis. I’ll …

Read More »