InfoQ Homepage API Gateway Content on InfoQ
-
Microsoft Announces Preview of a New Set of Azure Arc-Enabled Services
Recently, Microsoft, during its annual Build conference, announced a new set of Azure Service in preview that customers can run on virtually any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster with the help of its Azure Arc multi-cloud service. With Azure Arc, customers can use a single service in the Cloud to manage their container clusters across clouds and on-premises data centers.
-
Uber Reveals Its API Gateway's Architecture
Uber recently detailed the architecture of its internally built API gateway. It described how independent layered components handle each request in the gateway, with each layer being responsible for a different facet of the request lifecycle. A combination of YAML and Apache Thrift defines the gateway configuration, and a code-generated artifact in Go makes up the gateway implementation.
-
Google Cloud Announces a New Major Release of Its Management API Platform: Apigee X
Google Cloud recently announced a major new release of its API Management Platform Apigee. The release marks the tenth birthday of the service and is named Apigee X.
-
Netflix Implements GraphQL Federation at Scale
Netflix has successfully implemented a federated GraphQL API at scale. In a recent blog post series, engineers from Netflix describe their journey and the lessons learned in the process. With GraphQL federation, the API gateway implementation is distributed to backend teams owning the individual domain services they implement instead of centrally developed as part of the API gateway.
-
Maximizing User Experience with Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
Netflix uses its homegrown API gateway, Zuul, to classify incoming requests into priorities. When the system comes under load or is otherwise unstable, Zuul throttles traffic, starting with the lowest priority. It then progressively adjusts to shed load according to the priorities calculated until the system is healthy again.
-
Public Beta of Google Cloud API Gateway Now Available
At the recent Google's Cloud Next virtual conference, Google announced the public beta of API Gateway, a fully-managed Google Cloud service to create and monitor APIs for serverless workloads.
-
Ambassador Edge Stack Seeks Shortening of the Inner Development Loop
Datawire, provider of Kubernetes-native API gateway, Ambassador, has released a new version of Ambassador Edge Stack designed to accelerate the inner development loop. The new Service Preview capability uses Layer 7 (L7) control to allow multiple developers to code locally and preview changes as if the changes were part of the live cluster.
-
Kong for Kubernetes 0.8 Ingress Controller Released
Kong Inc. released Kong for Kubernetes version 0.8 - a Kubernetes Ingress controller that works with the Kong API Gateway. The release adds Knative integration, a new cluster level Custom Resource Definition, and annotations to minimize configuration.
-
HTTP APIs for Amazon API Gateway Are Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of HTTP APIs in the API Gateway on AWS. With HTTP APIs, the public cloud provider will offer the core functionality of REST API at a lower price, reduction of the latency overhead, and ease of use.
-
Datawire Announces the Ambassador Edge Stack Early Access Program
Datawire last week announced the release of the Ambassador Edge Stack 1.0. The Ambassador Edge Stack is an integrated edge solution that empowers developer teams to rapidly configure the edge services required to build, deliver, and scale their applications running in Kubernetes.
-
Benefits of Microsoft’s New Versions of Azure Application Gateway and the Web Application Firewall
In a recent blog post, Microsoft discusses the benefits of the generally available releases of Azure Application Gateway V2 Standard SKU and Web Application Firewall (WAF) V2 SKU's. Microsoft fully supports them with a 99.95% SLA, significant improvements and capabilities.
-
Gloo Gateway Released for Kubernetes Knative
Gloo, an Envoy-based API Gateway by Solo.io, is the first official alternative to Istio for the Kubernetes Knative service. InfoQ reached out to Solo Founder Idit Levine to learn more about Gloo and its integration with Knative.
-
New API Management Solution from NGINX Optimized for Internal and External APIs
The NGINX API Management Module announced at the NGINX Conference in October last year is now generally available. Liam Crilly, director of product management at NGINX, describes the new module together with NGINX Plus and NGINX Controller, as a next generation API management solution optimized for handling both external and internal APIs.
-
Kong 1.0 GA Released with Service Mesh Support and Plugin Development Kit
Kong Inc., has released Kong 1.0., the latest generally available (GA) version of their flagship API gateway. Although typically deployed at the edge of a network for the handling of external “north-south” API traffic, Kong also be can deployed as a “service mesh” in front of any backend service.
-
Microsoft Introduces New API Management Consumption Tier for Serverless Architectures
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new Azure API Management Consumption tier. This tier allows for micro-based billing and aligns to serverless architecture principles including automated scaling, built-in high availability, per action billing and no infrastructure to provision or manage.