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An API Gateway is a server that acts as an entry point for APIs, routing requests to the appropriate microservices. It matters for managing, securing, and optimizing API traffic, providing a unified and efficient interface for external consumers.
1. The Basics Of Designing an API Architecture
An introductory guide to understanding how API Architectures are designed.
2. You're Not Using HTTP Status Codes Right
In this article, we will be discussing some of the common mistakes that developers do when using HTTP status codes.
3. Path-Based Routing in Render with Kong API Gateway
It's good practice to put an API gateway in front of your microservices-backed application. Path-based routing makes this possible when deploying to Render.
4. The Anatomy of an API Gateway in Golang
Build your own API gateway in Go
5. API Gateway vs Backend for Frontend (BFF): Use Cases, Similarities and Divergencies
In this article, we are going to see what an API Gateway, BFFs, and how they are used for Client-Server communication in a Microservices architecture.
6. The System Design Cheat Sheet: Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy, Forward Proxy, API Gateway
Discover the key features of Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies, Forward Proxies, and API Gateways. Ideal for refreshing knowledge before System Design interview.
7. Authentication Middleware in Express Gateway using JWT
8. How to Set up an API Gateway for Your Microservices
How to deploy a single node Kong API gateway in front of multiple microservices?
9. Basic Elixir Api Guide
Elixir represents relatively new programming language for wider audience. It was published back in 2011, and is in development ever since. His main trait is that adops functional pardigm because it is built on top of Erlang and runs on BEAM(Erlang VM).
10. How to Successfully Set Up KrakenD on GKE: A Step by Step Guide
Definitive guide to setup KrakenD on GKE
11. Build Your own Telegram Bot with AWS and Node.js
Automate thankless tasks like splitting grocery bills using a Telegram Bot and AWS.
12. How to Build Multi-Tenant Internal Services in AWS and CDK (Part 1): API Gateway and AppSync
Build multi-tenant architecture for internal service with API Gateway and AppSync using AWS CDK
13. The Ultimate Guide to Best News APIs
The ultimate guide to the best news APIs, written by a professional data wrangler and ML practitioner.
14. Essential Tips To Manage Your gRPC Services With Kong Like A Pro
What follows is a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up Kong to proxy gRPC services, demonstrating two possible scenarios.
15. Doing API Monitoring the Right Way: Metrics and Best Practices
In this post, we'll go through the best practices for API monitoring, such as which metrics to prioritize and how to troubleshoot when an issue arises.
16. Use the Kong Gateway to Stop Coding Repetitive Service Components
Discover a new toolset aimed at solving application and API connectivity challenges, while still staying focused and meeting business needs.
17. Building Graphql API with Spring Boot, Neo4j and Kong [Part 2]
18. An Intro to API Gateways for ChatGPT Plugins
OpenAI has recently launched a new version of ChatGPT which now allows plugins inside ChatGPT. These plugins can be added directly to the chatbot, providing it with access to a wide range of knowledge and information from its third-party partners through the APIs. ChatGPT plugins can extend its functionality and enhance its capabilities to access up-to-date information such as research travel costs, find out discount information, or help you book flights and order food. You can also build your own plugin that allows ChatGPT to call your API data intelligently.
19. Why API Management and Service Mesh Are Complementary Patterns for Different Use Cases
Insights into the Differences Between API Gateways and Service Mesh
20. How to Set up Custom Domain Names for AppSync
One thing that API Gateway supports but you can’t do with AppSync out-of-the-box yet is custom domain names.
21. Creating API with Bash Code in AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Amazon web services (AWS) is a powerful platform for almost every webservice you can imagine. With AWS API Gateway and Lambda you are able to create REST API’s with ease! API gateway is enables you to create the API. Lambda lets you execute code when the API is invoked. This code can be in many programming languages like Python or Node.JS.
22. The 6 Core Concepts for HTTP Caching
The 6 core concepts you need to know to understand HTTP caching.
Don’t want to spend hours and hours reading RFCs and documentation ? Read this guide instead!
23. Amazon API Gateway Vs. Application Load Balancer
We recently wrote about whether API Gateway can act as a Load Balancer. The answer is yes and, in many cases, they are substitutes for each other. But how should we choose which one to use?
24. Introduction to API Gateway
What's a gateway? It is an entry point. Things go in. People, traffic, requests. If you've spent any time with microservices, you may have come across the term "API gateway".
25. An Introduction to API Gateways
Understanding what API Gateways are, how they differ from a reverse proxy & load balancer and their use in a microservices environment
26. How to Create an API Management Strategy?
An effective API management strategy enhances the developer experience, elevates software quality, lowers development expenses, and enables system scalability.
27. How To Unite Kuma Service Mesh With Kong API Gateway
In his blog post, Marco Palladino, Kong CTO and co-founder, went over the difference between API gateways and service mesh. I highly recommend reading his blog post to see how API management and service mesh are complementary patterns for different use cases, but to summarize in his words, “an API gateway and service mesh will be used simultaneously.” We maintain two open source projects that work flawlessly together to cover all the use cases you may encounter.
28. API Contract Drift - An Unsolved CI Problem
API contract drift is still poorly governed in CI. This story explores the gaps in schema change policy across OpenAPI, GraphQL, and Protobuf.
29. How to Radically Simplify Operations by Plugging Your API Gateway into an OpenAPI Spec
OpenAPI Spec — The blueprint for your API
30. Using AWS API Gateway as a Load Balancer
TL;DR: yes, API Gateway can replace what a Load Balancer would usually provide, with a simpler interface and many more features on top of it. The downside is that it doesn’t come cheap.
31. Load Balancing Strategies for Applications: From Infrastructure to Code
Selecting the right load balancing strategy can be a game-changer for your application's performance, scalability, and user experience.
32. 5 Major Factors Impacting the Evolution of APIs
In today’s world of ever-increasing digital interconnectivity, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have emerged as essential tools for integrating data efficiently and cost-effectively.
33. Monetizing APIs with WSO2 API Manager
Today APIs have become a key way for application developers to generate revenue, meaning monetisation is becoming a sought-after feature in the API Management space. Even though API monetisation has a broader meaning than simply charging for APIs; in our experience, most companies want to charge for API usage. There are a number of different ways that this can be achieved, but let’s take a look at the two most popular and how they can be effectively rolled out to bring in revenue.
34. Best Practices for API Security
Yet, its open doors and wide visibility makes it vulnerable to attacks. Also, attackers can easily find the way to the heart of applications and systems via APIs. Hence it is essential to fence APIs with all possible measures.
35. AWS Lambda For Dummies [Part 2]
In Part 1 of our Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners, we gave a refresher on the fundamentals of AWS Lambda and what is AWS Lambda. In this post, we’ll look at AWS Lambda pricing, some interesting Lambda facts and examples of great AWS Lambda use cases in your serverless application.
36. Abstraction Layers and API's for Cloud Native Environments
37. How To Fix Duplicate API Requests: Understanding Idempotency
Learn to prevent duplicate API requests in distributed systems with idempotency.
38. Why Every API Needs a Clock
Limiting flow was fundamental to TCPs success, why is it any different for APIs?
39. How To Use Amazon API Gateway to Decouple and Scale Serverless Architectures
One of the benefits of Serverless architectures is the possibility of scaling applications without worrying about load balancers and clusters of servers. While services like AWS Lambda hold their promises on this area, there are usually misconceptions about how they work.
40. What is a Service Mesh?
In our previous post on API Gateways we discussed how services handle external client to service (North-South) traffic.
41. Building Serverless Notification Architecture Design Using AWS: A Step-by-Step Guide for Developers
Explore the technical advantages of aws serverless architectures for notification systems. Learn about scalability, cost-efficiency, and security considerations
42. Load Balancer vs. API Gateway: Stop Confusing Your Backend Architecture
Load balancers and API gateways solve different problems. Here’s a clear, practical breakdown of how they work—and why they’re not interchangeable.
43. API DevEx Portals: A Definitive Guide
A definitive guide to building an API DevEx Portal for your API users.
44. What Developers Mean When They Talk About API
API has become one of those catch-all terms that developers throw around without really considering the context. On any given week, you will come across discussions like "How to use the Twitter API", "New framework X is great because it has a low API surface", and "Best practices for building an API."
45. API Development in the Time of COVID-19
46. How To Make A Cost Effective API Serverless Infrastructures
AWS API Gateway is a great service but can be quite expensive, and even cost-prohibitive in some cases.
47. Tips for Developers to Survive API-First
The world of API-First has swept developer marketing by storm. Learn some tips to get a grip on this trend and avoid being blindsided!
48. Stripe Vs. Braintree Vs. PayPal: Which Is The Best Payment Platform?
Online payment platforms have changed the way we shop every day. With the help of such payment platforms, we can easily send and receive without going to the bank.
49. Advanced Routing and Cookie Management with Apache APISIX
Learn advanced routing techniques with Apache APISIX: implement traffic splitting & cookie-based routing for efficient traffic management.
50. What's New in WSO2 API Manager 3.2.0?
WSO2 API Manager 3.2.0 the third release of the API Manager 3.x series, simplifies integrating with other ecosystems while reducing complexity of large scale deployments.
51. 4 Surprising Ways Your API Gateway Can Handle Generative AI
Companies are leaping on this AI-driven opportunity using tools like chatbots and AI agents to innovate and work smarter.
52. A Single Point of Access or Chaos — Unlocking Non-Blocking API Gateways
Spring Cloud Gateway is a modern, non-blocking API gateway that offers significant improvements over its predecessor, Netflix Zuul.
53. A Guide to API Gateways: Unveiling Advantages, Disadvantages, and Vendor Comparisons
API Gateways are often a component of a microservices architecture. But they are not a silver bullet - they have some downsides to consider!
54. A Quick Guide For Creating a Serverless Application with AWS Lambda and API Gateway
This guide provides a quick walkthrough of constructing a serverless application leveraging potent AWS services.
55. Why We Need to Redefine the 3-Tier Architecture
The classic 3-tier architecture is need of a reboot. APIs have changed the way we write application code and we need to redefine how 3-tier architecture works.
56. Going From Open API Specification To Development Portal
API Economy is taking off exponentially and its every business need to expose their digital services and assets in a secure way. I'll walkthrough in this article how one can take a API-first , design first approach to take into the account, the needs of API consumers and various steps that lead to creating a Developer Portal using all the tools that we've currently. Please note that these tools have alternatives in the market, but these are what got me to the goal post in the fastest way and case could differ for others.
57. A Strange Yucca Tribute Concert: Configuring Kong API Gateway With Micronaut Services in Kotlin
What is an API Gateway and how can we use it? Kong offers that and in open-source form as well. Find out how the OSS version works!
58. 16 Best Practices For Securing Your APIs with Apache APISIX - Part 2
Learn 16 advanced tips to keep your APIs safe with Apache APISIX.
59. You Split Up Your Monolith—Now API Gateways Are Here to Save Your Butt
Microservices are great… until they aren’t.
60. Why and How to monitor Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs
Monitoring your HTTP APIs can transform your decision process with actionable information instead of guessing around user complaints and high bills.
61. API Integrations Can Give Your Business A Single Source of Truth
An Application Program Interface (API) is a bunch of capacities or systems that gives programs admittance to a typical information source.
62. System Architecture: Moving Authentication to the API Gateway
When exposing an application to the outside world, consider a Reverse-Proxy or an API Gateway to protect it from attacks.
63. 🔮 What Does the Future Hold for API Management, in 2023 and Beyond?
As the number of APIs continues to expand without bounds, what can we expect from API Management platforms in 2023? What are the important human interactions?
64. What does API Gateway Encoding not Enabled mean?
In this quick debugging article, you'll learn what does the error api gateway encoding not enabled mean, and how to handle or debug it.
65. Advanced Rate Limiting with Apache APISIX: Optimizing API Gateway Performance
To optimize your API gateway's performance, learn how to implement advanced rate limiting with Apache APISIX, including per-consumer and per-group limits.
66. OpenTelemetry: Improving My Tracing Demo
Refining my OpenTelemetry demo with Apache APISIX, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Python, Flask, Rust, and more.
67. A Look at Use of API Gateways When Creating Complex Systems
API Gateways can help you create microservices and micro frontends, and expose rich APIs to your customers while keeping things simple on your company.
68. Chopping the Monolith — the Smarter Way
In this post, I offer another alternative to chop the monolith. Instead of forking the call on the client side, we fork the call on the Gateway side.
69. Spending Weekend with GraphQL
70. Simplifying API with Tyny.dev Founder Patrick Pittich-Rinnerthaler
Totally Nerdy Cofounder Patrick Pittich-Rinnerthaler joins us in this Slogging AMA to talk about his API technology tyny.dev.
71. How to 'Architect' an Easy Way into the Serverless World
A easy way to jump to jump into the serverless world in AWS
72. Navigating Data Residency Challenges in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has opened a Pandora's Box of many nascent issues as compared to sound old on-premise systems. Chief among them is Data Residency.
73. How to Secure Admin Access to Apache APISIX
In this post, I've shown several non-exclusive options you should consider to secure Apache APISIX.
74. Creating a Poor Man's API Using PostgREST
Creating a full-fledged API requires resources, both time and money.
75. Breaking Up a Monolithic Database with Kong
If your microservice design results in a very large API or multiple services accessing a single database, check out Kong Gateway.
76. Public ASX100 APIs: The Essential List
We’ve conducted some initial research into the public APIs of the ASX100 because we regularly have conversations about what others are doing with their APIs and what best practices look like. Being able to point to good local examples and explain what is happening in Australia is a key part of this conversation.
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