This article reviews essential tools and formats—such as Postman, Apidog, Swagger/OpenAPI, and API gateways like Amazon API Gateway and Kong—that help backend developers efficiently save, document, and manage HTTP API information throughout the development lifecycle.
This article compares OpenRouter and Higress as emerging AI Gateways, examining their origins, target users, feature sets, deployment models, and pricing structures to show how the traditional gateway concept is being reshaped for AI‑driven cloud‑native applications.
This article details how the 星图 platform evolved from a monolithic customer‑service system into a modular, configurable backend architecture, covering its API management capabilities, process orchestration, caching strategies, JVM tuning, concurrency model, code optimizations, and the resulting performance gains and business benefits.
This article traces the evolution of API gateways and API management from early traffic and microservice gateways to cloud-native and AI-focused solutions, compares their core responsibilities, roles, and technical foundations, and outlines how they can be integrated and what future trends, such as AI gateways and MCP servers, may bring to modern software architectures.
This tutorial walks you through API protocol types, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation setup, advanced configuration, environment‑specific activation, UI enhancement with Knife4j, and practical versioning strategies to efficiently manage and evolve your backend APIs.
This roundup highlights Tencent's GPU capacity for future models, Alibaba's fully disclosed Qwen3 technical report, Anaconda's unified AI platform, Parasoft's AI‑enhanced SOAtest, and Google Cloud's GA of the Apigee API Management Operator, offering a snapshot of current AI advancements.
Effective interface testing in large projects requires clear test objectives, well‑defined strategies, distinct responsibilities for backend, frontend and testing teams, the use of professional tools for API management and CI/CD, continuous process optimization, and strong communication to ensure high efficiency and quality.
The talk describes how Tencent News consolidated fragmented legacy APIs by adopting YAPI (with Swagger UI) for unified documentation, dynamic mocking, and automated Swagger generation, instituted full lifecycle governance and monitoring, and leveraged large‑language‑model tools to identify and remediate technical debt, resulting in 26 repos synced and over 750 daily mock calls.
The article explains how modern enterprises can manage the growing number of heterogeneous applications by applying Gartner's Pace‑Layered architecture, grouping systems by change velocity, and using Azure services such as API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Event Grid to achieve adaptive, loosely‑coupled integration across record, differentiation, and innovation layers.
The article presents yapi-to-all, an interface‑driven tool that automatically generates TypeScript definitions, service functions with useRequest, and page templates from YAPI documentation, eliminating repetitive coding, improving project management and code quality, already producing over 50,000 lines across seven projects, with future AI‑enhanced extensions planned.
Over the past year, Mooncake transformed from a simple mock service into a comprehensive API collaboration platform, integrating Yapi and mock functionalities, adopting Nielsen’s design principles, and introducing tools for Java, Go, iOS, Android, and frontend development, while outlining its architectural upgrades, design philosophy, and future roadmap.
This article explains Bilibili’s unified API management platform, covering service launch processes, manual versus automated metadata collection, code‑first API definitions in Go and Java, version control, collaboration features, mock testing, and micro‑service standardization to improve development efficiency and reduce operational costs.
Bilibili’s unified API management platform automates documentation generation for Go and Java services, ties each API version to specific code commits, supports version snapshots, integrates with gateways for debugging and OpenAPI export, and provides service‑level mocking, thereby standardizing microservice development and reducing cross‑team overhead.
The article explains how modern enterprises can achieve adaptive integration by applying Gartner's Pace‑Layered architecture, categorizing systems into record, differentiation, and innovation layers, and leveraging Microsoft Azure services, API management, and messaging buses to balance governance, flexibility, and speed.
iQIYI’s Atlas platform consolidates API governance and knowledge management by providing a unified portal with OpenAPI 3.0 specs, one‑click debugging, link tracing, knowledge graphs, and automatic code‑as‑documentation, dramatically cutting development and testing time, reducing maintenance costs, and streamlining collaboration across its 100‑million‑member microservice ecosystem.
This article analyzes the challenges of fragmented API documentation workflows at DeWu, introduces the Document‑&‑Test‑Driven Development (DTDD) model, and details the architectural and procedural improvements—including data asset consolidation, multi‑level classification, mock services, and automated testing—that boosted documentation utilization and reduced development friction.
This article explains how introducing a data source layer in a visualization building system reduces repetitive component configuration, improves reuse, and empowers non‑developers to create and manage APIs for dynamic UI assembly.
The article examines common pain points of API management in agile, front‑back separation projects and evaluates Apifox as a comprehensive solution that offers visual design, powerful debugging, automatic code generation, real‑time updates, and fine‑grained project permissions.
The article explains how modern enterprises can manage integration costs and speed by classifying applications into Gartner's Pace‑Layered architecture—System of Record, System of Differentiation, and System of Innovation—and leveraging Microsoft cloud and on‑premise services to support each layer.
This article explores comprehensive API lifecycle management, detailing how lightweight API gateways integrate with object‑driven development platforms, the division into four subsystems, automatic contract generation, rule handling, service composition, microservice packaging, and source‑code export, providing a practical roadmap for building scalable API solutions.
This article explains the evolving role of API gateways by defining APIs, describing API management, cluster ingress gateways, and the API gateway pattern, and finally discussing how these concepts intersect with service mesh technologies to help architects choose the right solution for their cloud‑native environments.
This article explains the three primary roles of API gateways—API management, cluster ingress, and gateway pattern—clarifies the definition of an API, compares gateways with service mesh, and provides practical examples of implementations and best‑practice considerations for modern cloud‑native architectures.
This article explains the three main roles of API gateways—API management, cluster ingress, and gateway patterns—defines what an API is, compares gateways with service meshes, and provides examples of implementations to help architects choose the right solution for cloud‑native environments.
This article introduces the importance of APIs in modern software development and presents a curated list of fifteen leading open‑source API management platforms, detailing their key features such as rate limiting, authentication, analytics, and developer portals to help developers choose the right solution.
This article surveys the most popular REST API tools—covering definition, testing, monitoring, publishing, and management solutions—detailing each product's core features, integration options, and ideal use cases to help developers choose the right tool for their projects.
This tutorial walks you through installing YApi, configuring its environment, importing Swagger definitions, managing interfaces, leveraging mock data, enabling automatic sync, and handling permission management, providing a powerful, secure API documentation solution for backend developers.
API gateways serve three core roles—API management, cluster ingress control, and gateway pattern—each with distinct responsibilities, and their relationship with service meshes is explored, helping readers understand how to choose and combine these components for optimal API infrastructure across various layers.
This article presents a curated list of leading open‑source API management solutions, describing their key features such as rate limiting, authentication, analytics, developer portals, and deployment options to help developers and operations teams choose the most suitable tool for their API lifecycle needs.
Tencent Cloud API 3.0 introduces a unified, secure, high‑performance API Gateway that centralizes access, routing, and lifecycle management for microservices, offering standardized interfaces, multi‑language SDKs, CLI and Explorer tools, precise rate limiting, rich documentation, and a roadmap toward industry‑wide standardization and broader scenario adoption.
This article surveys a wide range of REST API tools—covering API definition, testing, monitoring, publishing, and centralized management—highlighting their key features, supported languages, integration capabilities, and suitability for teams of different sizes and project requirements.
This article reviews fifteen leading open-source API management platforms, outlining their key features such as rate limiting, authentication, analytics, and developer portals, to help developers and architects choose the most suitable solution for modern backend and micro‑service environments.
This article surveys fifteen leading open‑source API management platforms—such as API Umbrella, Gravitee.io, Kong Enterprise, and 3Scale—detailing their key features like rate limiting, authentication, analytics, and developer portals, to help backend teams choose the right solution for their microservice architectures.
This article explains how comprehensive API lifecycle management, robust authentication, version control, and integrated security policies are essential for protecting IoT devices and customer data from increasingly common API‑related vulnerabilities.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step tutorial for installing and configuring the Yapi API management platform on a CentOS 7.6 server, covering system prerequisites, Node.js and MongoDB setup, environment configuration, deployment commands, and common error troubleshooting.
At the 2019 Cloud Native State of the Union speech, CTO Chen Kai highlighted the maturation of cloud native technologies, the central role of Kubernetes and operators, the shift toward hybrid and multi‑cloud deployments, and practical guidance for adopting cloud native infrastructure, service mesh, and API management in enterprises.
The article surveys thirty‑nine essential open‑source tools for constructing microservices—from API management, messaging, and monitoring to Kubernetes orchestration, programming languages, frameworks, and serverless platforms—highlighting how each solution supports communication, scalability, and rapid development across enterprise, government, education, and charitable applications.
The article chronicles the multi‑phase development of Zhuanzhuan's API documentation and mock platform, detailing how it grew from a simple wiki‑based list to an automated, IP‑aware mock system integrated with the Beetle CI pipeline to ensure interface consistency and reduce manual effort.
This article examines the contentious debate between microservices and SOA, explains their differing definitions, explores how API management bridges the two, and outlines the advantages, challenges, and key considerations for adopting microservices in modern, agile, and scalable enterprise architectures.
