Monthly Report (August 01 - August 31)

We have recently made some additions and improvements to specific features within Apache APISIX. The main improvements include adding ai-prompt-template plugin and supporting AWS Secrets Manager. For ...

Release Apache APISIX 3.10.0

We are glad to present Apache APISIX 3.10.0 with exciting new features, bug fixes, and other improvements to user experiences.

Free tier API with Apache APISIX

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 and accessible via an API. Today, we will implement a free tier with Apache APISIX.

Monthly Report (July 01 - July 31)

We have recently made some additions and improvements to specific features within Apache APISIX. The main improvement is moving the default values from config-default.yaml to a hardcoded Lua file. For detailed information, please read the monthly report.

Differentiating rate limits in Apache APISIX

In my talk Evolving your APIs, I mention that an API Gateway is a Reverse Proxy "on steroids". One key difference between the former and the latter is that the API Gateway is not unfriendly to busines...

Advanced URL rewriting with Apache APISIX

I spoke at Swiss PgDay in Switzerland in late June. The talk was about how to create a no-code API with the famous PostgreSQL database, the related PostgREST, and Apache APISIX, of course. I already wrote about the idea in a previous post. However, I wanted to improve it, if only slightly.

PostgREST offers a powerful SELECT mechanism. To list all entities with a column equal to a value, you need the following command:

Dynamic watermarking with imgproxy and Apache APISIX

Last week, I described how to add a dynamic watermark to your images on the JVM. I didn't find any library, so I had to develop the feature, or, more precisely, an embryo of a feature, by myself. Depending on your tech stack, you must search for an existing library or roll up your sleeves. For example, Rust offers such an out-of-the-box library. Worse, this approach might be impossible to implement if you don't have access to the source image.

Another alternative is to use ready-made components, namely imgproxy and Apache APISIX. I already combined them to resize images on-the-fly.

Monthly Report (June 01 - June 30)

We have recently made some additions and improvements to specific features within Apache APISIX. These include replacing YAML parser tinyyaml with lyaml, and supporting storing certificates and privat...

Random and fixed routes with Apache APISIX

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: