This tutorial walks through provisioning an Alibaba Cloud ACK Kubernetes cluster using Terraform, covering provider setup, VPC and VSwitch creation, managed Kubernetes resource definition, Jenkins deployment, DNS configuration, and cleanup procedures, with full code examples.
Airbnb migrated its services to Kubernetes and, over four years, evolved from manual scaling of homogeneous clusters to heterogeneous clusters with automated scaling, introducing a custom gRPC expander for the Cluster Autoscaler that enables weighted priority and plug‑in extensibility, reducing costs and operational overhead.
This article provides a detailed introduction to etcd, covering its purpose as a highly available distributed key‑value store, core concepts like Raft consensus, key features, common use cases such as service discovery and configuration management, step‑by‑step installation for single‑node and cluster deployments, and essential etcdctl commands for managing data and cluster members.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to install the Dapr CLI, initialize local Redis and Zipkin containers, configure component files, and use Dapr’s APIs to perform service invocation, state management, pub/sub, bindings, and secrets management in a Node.js microservice application, complete with code snippets and Docker commands.
The article analyzes three recent high‑severity CVEs in the Kubernetes Ingress Nginx project, explains how its combined control‑plane and data‑plane design creates serious security and stability risks, and demonstrates how the MSE cloud‑native gateway’s separated architecture and xDS‑based configuration provide a safer, more reliable alternative.
This article analyzes the difficulties of using vanilla Kubeflow for MLOps, introduces the kubeflow‑chart Helm chart that streamlines deployment and integrates tools like SQLFlow and kfpdist, and provides detailed installation commands and a roadmap of upcoming components for a full cloud‑native AI platform.
This tutorial demonstrates how to install Aeraki Mesh, use its MetaRouter CRD to configure local rate limiting for MetaProtocol services such as Dubbo and Thrift, apply per‑service and conditional limits, and view the generated sidecar proxy configuration in a Kubernetes environment.
This talk walks through Docker’s appeal, its rise to popularity, the underlying container technology history, core architecture, networking, namespaces, cgroups, and common commands, illustrating how containers streamline deployment compared to traditional VMs and why Docker remains pivotal in cloud-native environments.
This article explains why Stone Docs switched from SLS/ES to ClickHouse for Kubernetes log storage, outlines the four‑stage architecture (collection, transmission, storage, management), compares DaemonSet, network, and SideCar collection methods, and provides concrete ClickHouse table definitions and Fluent‑Bit configurations for a production‑grade logging pipeline.
This article outlines critical database governance scenarios in cloud‑native microservice architectures, explains why database performance is a top priority, and details practical solutions such as slow‑SQL insight, flow‑control, connection‑pool management, and gray‑release techniques using MSE and OpenSergo standards.
This article explains cloud‑native observability, defines its three pillars—metrics, tracing, and logging—details the OpenTelemetry tracing data model and Span structure, reviews industry implementations such as Jaeger and Alibaba Eagle Eye, and shares practical challenges and solutions from real‑world production use.
The article details how Zendesk modernized its monolithic Rails architecture by adopting Docker, microservices, and Kubernetes, building internal tools like ZDI and Samson, and achieving faster deployments, automated scaling, and improved resilience, with about 70% of its applications now running on Kubernetes.
This article explains Change Data Capture (CDC) concepts, compares open‑source CDC tools, and shows how to leverage Alibaba Cloud EventBridge and DTS to build real‑time CDC pipelines, covering setup steps, event‑bus vs event‑stream choices, best‑practice scenarios such as CQRS, microservice decoupling, database backup, and SQL auditing.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Function Compute asynchronous tasks for large‑scale data analysis, database autonomous services, Kafka‑based ETL pipelines, and high‑performance video transcoding, highlighting architecture migration, cost reduction, deployment steps, and observable serverless task capabilities.
This article introduces EasyFunction, JD's serverless FaaS platform built on iPaaS, detailing its background, applicable scenarios such as BFF, data processing, SSR and admin panels, the business benefits, core product features, and several real‑world deployment cases.
This newsletter curates the latest industry insights on smart manufacturing, Kubernetes security, cloud cost optimization, cloud‑native education, technical case studies, e‑books on cloud‑native adoption, an AI modeling video, and recent cloud‑native networking updates, providing concise summaries and direct links for deeper exploration.
This article explains what Kubernetes (K8s) is, its core characteristics of portability, extensibility, and automation, and how it enables cloud‑native, container‑based deployments, resource optimization, seamless service migration, and operational automation across enterprises of all sizes.
This article walks through the fundamental concepts of Kubernetes, explaining how the master node communicates with workers, how pods are scheduled onto nodes, where cluster state is stored, how services expose pods externally, and how replication controllers enable dynamic scaling.
This guide explains how to integrate Alibaba Cloud MSE's Sentinel-based rate limiting and degradation features into Go microservices, covering the three-step model, SDK setup, resource definition, and configuration of flow, isolation, circuit‑breaker, and hotspot rules.
In July 2021 a sudden CPU‑100% spike in Bilibili's OpenResty‑based SLB caused widespread service outages, prompting an emergency response that rebuilt load‑balancer clusters, traced a Lua _gcd function bug triggered by a zero weight string, and led to extensive operational and architectural improvements.
ByteDance’s cloud‑native ecosystem combines a multi‑layered architecture, dynamic resource over‑provisioning control, hybrid online‑offline scheduling, and federated cluster management to boost container utilization from 23% to 63%, reduce costs by 40%, and support massive events like the 2021 Spring Festival Gala.
This article explains common Kafka message‑loss and duplicate‑consumption issues, introduces Alibaba Cloud's fully managed Kafka Retrieval Component, and provides step‑by‑step guidance—including enabling the service, using Tablestore for multi‑index and SQL searches—to help engineers quickly locate and verify missing or duplicated messages.
This article presents a comprehensive, data‑driven case study of how Tencent’s internal Kubernetes/TKE platform reduced monthly CPU usage by up to 70% and memory usage by 50% through systematic cost data collection, VPA/HPA enhancements, custom scheduling, node‑level over‑commit, and safe node decommissioning, while maintaining zero‑incident reliability.
As cloud‑native technologies surge, financial institutions are racing toward full adoption to cut costs and boost service quality, yet they face challenges in evaluating investment returns, measuring impact, and navigating a complex stack of infrastructure, security, and operational changes.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to create a distributed Redis Pub/Sub application using Dapr, Docker Compose, and NestJS, covering project setup, Dapr placement, Redis publisher, component definition, sidecars, subscription configuration, testing, and CloudEvents JSON handling.
This tutorial explains the fundamentals of service mesh, outlines Istio's architecture and core components, walks through installing Istio on Kubernetes, demonstrates a sample microservice deployment with traffic‑management, security, and observability features, and discusses when to adopt a service mesh and its alternatives.
This tutorial explains how to automatically create and delete Jenkins agent pods on a Kubernetes cluster for each pipeline run by storing Groovy scripts in a shared library, loading them with ScriptConsole, and invoking the Kubernetes API through Jenkins.
In this interview, Apache Dubbo Committer and GSoC mentor Niu Xuewei shares his open‑source journey, contributions to Dubbo‑go and Kata Containers, experiences as a community contributor and mentor, and offers practical advice on code quality, time management, and the benefits of open‑source participation for students.
In this interview, Tencent Cloud expert Zhang Zhigang explains the fundamentals and key technologies of lakehouse architecture, discusses how cloud‑native practices enhance its performance and operability, and offers practical advice for big‑data professionals ahead of the 2022 GIAC Global Internet Architecture Conference in Shenzhen.
The case study describes how LifeMiles migrated its legacy monolithic system to AWS and adopted Kubernetes for container orchestration, achieving a 50% reduction in infrastructure costs, a three‑fold increase in deployment frequency, and a doubling of usable resources while dramatically shortening time‑to‑market.
The article analyzes how the rise of software‑defined vehicles and the rapid development of cloud‑native and AI technologies are reshaping the automotive sector, outlining the IT challenges car makers face, the benefits of cloud‑native adoption, practical migration steps, and security considerations for a successful digital transformation.
Kubernetes, evolving from Google’s Borg and built on Docker’s lightweight containers, became the dominant cloud‑native orchestration platform by offering a declarative API, extensible plug‑in architecture, and robust control‑plane components that automate deployment, scaling, service discovery, and self‑healing across distributed workloads.
This article explains what eBPF is, why it was created, its core characteristics, common use cases such as network optimization, fault diagnosis, security control and performance monitoring, and provides practical step‑by‑step guidance, tooling commands, program types, and ecosystem resources for leveraging eBPF in cloud‑native environments.
This article presents a comprehensive set of Kubernetes best practices covering namespace usage, health probes, autoscaling, resource requests, workload controllers, multi‑node clusters, RBAC, managed services, version upgrades, monitoring, GitOps, image optimization, labeling, network policies, and firewalls to help engineers design, operate, and maintain robust cloud‑native environments.
This article provides a concise, concept‑level overview of Kubernetes architecture, explaining the roles of master and worker nodes, Pods, networking, scheduling, storage, services, scaling, and controller interactions, illustrated with diagrams to help beginners grasp the system’s complexity.
This guide explains how to install and use the kube-capacity command‑line tool to quickly view resource requests, limits, and utilization for pods and nodes in a Kubernetes cluster, including advanced options for filtering, JSON/YAML output, and integration with metrics‑server.
The first Cloud‑Native Practitioners Conference brought together engineers from Zuoyebang, Zhihu, Zhuanzhuan and others to share large‑scale Kubernetes, serverless and Istio experiences, industry trends, and practical solutions that drive stability, efficiency and digital transformation.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of Beike's machine learning platform and its inference service, detailing the platform's architecture, GPU virtualization, cloud‑native migration, MLOps implementation, and future roadmap to achieve cost‑effective, automated AI model deployment at scale.
This guide explains the concept of serverless computing and gray (canary) releases, compares manual console methods with the FC-Canary plugin, and provides step‑by‑step instructions, code snippets, and best‑practice tips for configuring and testing automated canary deployments on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute.
This article introduces Aeraki Mesh, a CNCF sandbox project that extends Istio by providing a non‑intrusive, scalable framework to manage traffic for any layer‑7 protocol—including Dubbo, Thrift, Redis, and Kafka—through its MetaProtocol architecture and dynamic routing capabilities.
This article explores Tencent’s evolution from monolithic LAMP/MVC stacks to a container‑based microservice architecture, detailing the open‑source Polaris Mesh service mesh, Spring Cloud Tencent framework, and their gateway, naming, and configuration components, while highlighting deployment benefits and practical usage examples.
This guide explains how to install Sonobuoy, run Kubernetes conformance tests, retrieve and analyze results, and understand the tool’s architecture and role in ensuring cluster portability and CNCF certification.
This article explains why downsampling is essential for handling massive time‑series data in Prometheus, describes the aggregation rules and intervals, compares ARMS Prometheus' implementation with other solutions, and shows performance and accuracy results that demonstrate significant query speed improvements.
Yelp migrated its massive Kafka deployment from EC2 to a Kubernetes‑based PaaSTA platform, introducing a custom Kafka operator and Cruise Control to cut provisioning time, simplify upgrades, improve lifecycle management, and reduce reliance on Puppet, while maintaining high‑throughput data pipelines.
The article explains the growing importance of developer self‑service platforms in modern cloud‑native environments, describing their benefits, operational models, and how they empower developers to manage infrastructure and application delivery efficiently.
This article explains the various execution states of Serverless Task, the state‑transition flow, runtime instance management, and how to gracefully stop tasks using PreStop hooks and SDK calls, providing practical guidance for cloud‑native developers.
This guide walks through designing a simple Java Spring Boot microservice architecture, implementing the services, deploying them on a Kubernetes cluster with Eureka registration, adding Prometheus‑Grafana monitoring, configuring logging, tracing, and flow‑control, and validating high availability using real‑time dashboards and tools like Lens.
This article explains data architecture as the transformation of business needs into data and system requirements, outlines its objectives, core principles, essential components, the relationship with data modeling, relevant frameworks, and modern best‑practice guidelines for building scalable, cloud‑native, AI‑enabled architectures.
Vivo’s rapid migration to Kubernetes across multiple data centers required a secure, efficient, and reliable way to manage thousands of nodes, leading them to develop a custom k8s‑operator that streamlines cluster deployment, CI testing, declarative APIs, and automated repair for large‑scale cloud‑native environments.
The Huawei Cloud HCDE summit highlighted the rise of distributed cloud native, detailing global scheduling, SaaS tenant isolation, AI creation tool workflows, and the integration of Kubernetes and Dapr to address cross‑cloud, cross‑region application challenges.
This article analyzes the low server utilization problem in modern cloud‑native environments, presents industry survey data, and outlines a four‑step framework—including observability, optimal public‑cloud usage, elasticity sharing, and remote deployment—to help enterprises dramatically reduce cloud costs while maintaining performance.
KubeVela 1.4 introduces built‑in multi‑cluster authentication and authorization, a resource‑topology visualizer, the lightweight VelaD runtime, dozens of new plugins, and a host of workflow enhancements, while outlining the project’s roadmap for observability, workflow and application management.
This article explains the Eureka heartbeat mechanism in microservice architectures, covering who sends the heartbeat, its scheduling interval, the request construction, server-side handling, and how the lease information is updated to determine service liveness.
This article provides a detailed walkthrough of Kube-OVN's controller architecture, covering its deployment as a Kubernetes deployment, the main initialization flow, worker mechanisms for handling VPC, subnet, and pod resources, and the creation of the default VPC with associated OVN logical router.
This article explains how the kube-ovn-cni component functions as a CNI plugin in Kubernetes, detailing its cmdAdd interface, interaction with the kube-ovn daemon, creation of veth pairs, OVS bridge integration, and network namespace configuration to manage pod network interfaces securely and efficiently.
This article explains how the Kube-OVN controller watches pod events, queues them, and uses functions like handleAddPod, getPodKubeovnNets, and getPodAttachmentNet to allocate and release pod IP/MAC addresses while creating OVN ports and routes, enhancing Kubernetes networking security and operability.
Industry experts from Zhejiang Mobile, Bilibili, and Xiaomi discuss how SRE has evolved in the cloud‑native era, sharing concrete frameworks, observability practices, and cost‑focused platforms while emphasizing stability, metrics, on‑call processes, and the need to adapt Google’s model to real‑world product and operational contexts.
This article outlines a comprehensive full‑stack cloud‑native architecture for enterprises, detailing a six‑layer blueprint, the 1+4+6+N planning model, core capabilities, supporting systems, and a three‑step implementation roadmap to accelerate digital transformation and business innovation.
The article analyzes how pandemic‑driven demand for contact‑less medical services is prompting hospitals to adopt full‑stack cloud‑native platforms, outlining strategic cloud choices, micro‑service migration, and phased implementation to achieve unified data governance, flexible online care, and reduced operational pressure.
This article presents a comprehensive architectural roadmap covering microservice fundamentals, design principles, service discovery, API protocols, gateway patterns, observability pillars, service mesh options, and a detailed comparison of modern message‑queue technologies, offering practical guidance for backend system design and selection.
The 2022 Kunpeng Developer Summit showcased Huawei Cloud EulerOS, an openEuler‑based cloud‑native operating system, highlighting its high‑performance, security‑focused features, mixed‑deployment solutions, and real‑world case studies such as smart property management and a micro‑service banking core, illustrating the platform’s role in advancing intelligent computing.
Chen Yang, a senior DevOps engineer at Bilibili, brings over a decade of database expertise from multinational IT firms and major internet companies, having designed trillion‑scale architectures for billion‑user services, specialized in MySQL, automated and cloud‑native database operations, and holds several patented innovations.
This article compares Prometheus and Zabbix, outlining their histories, architectures, data storage models, configuration complexity, scalability, and suitability for traditional versus cloud-native environments, helping readers decide which monitoring solution best fits their infrastructure needs.
The 2022 Cloud Native Industry Conference in Beijing, organized by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and the China Communications Standards Association, showcased 14 exemplary cloud‑native cases—including Zuoyebang’s search system—highlighting the rapid growth of China’s cloud‑native ecosystem, its technical innovations, and the release of a national cloud‑native security testing platform.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud's open‑source Koordinator system tackles mixed‑workload challenges by introducing priority and QoS models, resource overcommit, load‑aware scheduling, fine‑grained CPU orchestration, and upcoming features such as GPU scheduling and resource recommendation, all illustrated with architecture diagrams and code examples.
This article explains what a Kubernetes pod is, why pods are needed instead of single containers, how the pause container enables shared namespaces, common pod deployment patterns, step‑by‑step creation with kubectl, and the detailed lifecycle and creation workflow of pods.
The article examines WebAssembly's strengths and limitations as a potential Docker alternative, highlighting its portability, security, and edge‑computing advantages while acknowledging Docker's continued relevance for legacy services and complex workloads.
This article explains the distinct roles of Serverless Devs and Terraform, compares multi‑environment deployment with direct Terraform usage, clarifies the concepts of environments versus environment variables, and details why the multi‑environment feature is implemented as a component rather than a CLI tool.
This article examines the design principles, challenges, and implementation details of a multi‑active architecture for hybrid cloud environments, covering stability, cost, efficiency, network topology, container orchestration, service discovery, traffic scheduling, and data storage, and outlines practical solutions used by the Zuoyebang platform.
This article details how Latin America’s largest fintech bank Nubank adopted Kubernetes to overcome immutable‑infrastructure challenges, accelerate deployments, improve developer experience, and achieve roughly a 30% increase in cost efficiency while scaling its services across regions.
Bilibili’s SRE team ensures flawless large‑scale online events by meticulously gathering activity details, provisioning DNS, CDN, networking and compute resources, conducting multi‑stage performance tests and chaos‑engineering drills, applying layered traffic controls, maintaining historical checklists, executing predefined contingency responses, and iterating post‑mortems to drive continuous automation and reliability.
Zadig Toolkit, a VS Code extension from KodeRover, lets developers view and manage Zadig environments, restart services, switch images, debug remotely, and sync code without committing or building images, providing step‑by‑step guidance on installation, configuration, remote debugging, and service inspection.
This comprehensive guide explains Kubernetes' networking model, covering core concepts such as network namespaces, virtual Ethernet pairs, pod-to-pod and pod-to-service communication, CIDR routing, NAT, iptables, IPVS, DNS, and how traffic flows between pods, services, and the external Internet.
Vivo describes how it built a Kubernetes‑Operator and CI pipeline to automate large‑scale, multi‑data‑center cluster deployment, modular management, and lifecycle operations using Ansible, kubeadm, and kubevirt, improving reliability, maintainability, and scalability of its Kubernetes fleets.
The article explains that Kubernetes’ core value is its universal, extensible declarative API framework rather than containers, walks through API types, CRD extensions, and uses a fruit‑CRD example to show how CRUD operations map to database concepts, concluding that the API is the true engine of Kubernetes.
The article explains that Kubernetes’ true value comes from its universal, declarative API framework rather than containers, demonstrates this with a hands‑on CRD example, and uses a database analogy to show how CRDs act like tables while the API behaves like SQL, highlighting extensibility and RBAC.
This article explains how enterprises can streamline multi‑environment serverless workflows by templating infrastructure and services, using Terraform‑based environment templates within Serverless Devs, and automating CI/CD pipelines to let platform, infra, and development teams work independently yet securely.
Ericsson leverages cloud‑native technologies—including Kubernetes, micro‑services, CI/CD pipelines, and CNCF tools—to accelerate its 5G network rollout, reduce service feedback times from weeks to hours, lower TCO, and enable rapid, reliable deployment of telecom applications across carrier networks.
Vivo replaced error‑prone manual Ansible playbooks with a custom Kubernetes Operator that uses declarative CRDs and modular Ansible scripts to automate the full lifecycle—deployment, scaling, upgrades, and recovery—of thousands of nodes across multiple data‑centers, supported by extensive CI testing and future kubeadm integration.
This article outlines a comprehensive, cloud‑native methodology for preparing large‑scale sales events like the 618 promotion, covering uncertainty challenges, capacity assessment, performance testing, pre‑heating strategies, flow‑control, and MSE service‑governance techniques to ensure stable, cost‑effective operation.
This article explains how Kube-OVN leverages OVN/OVS to provide pod port security and OpenStack‑style security groups through custom CRDs, annotations, address sets, and ACL rules, detailing the underlying mechanisms and workflow for managing network security in Kubernetes.
This article examines the evolution from large monolithic applications to distributed micro‑service systems, comparing Spring Cloud with Kubernetes and Istio, discussing the role of Service Mesh, and evaluating the benefits and trade‑offs of using Spring Boot on K8s versus a full Service Mesh solution.
This guide explains how to use Nocalhost together with Rainbond to develop, debug, and deploy microservice applications directly in a Kubernetes cluster, covering installation, configuration, development modes, and practical steps for seamless cloud‑native development.
This article outlines essential Kubernetes security principles based on the 4C model, discusses best practices for clusters, containers, and code, and reviews several open‑source tools such as Kubescape, kube‑bench, Terrascan, kube‑hunter, and Anchore for assessing and improving cluster security.
This article explains the kube-ovn-cni component of the Kube-OVN project, detailing the CNI workflow, the cmdAdd interface, daemon handling, and the configureNic function that together create and configure pod network interfaces within a Kubernetes cluster.
The 5th Techo TVP Developer Summit explored the surge of data, the strategic role of NoSQL in digital transformation, presented cutting‑edge trends, performance breakthroughs, cloud‑native multi‑model solutions, and real‑world case studies from finance to gaming, highlighting future directions for database technology.
OpenYurt v0.7.0 introduces the Raven solution, a non‑intrusive, encrypted‑tunnel based approach that seamlessly connects pods across public‑cloud, edge‑to‑edge, and edge‑to‑cloud environments without modifying existing CNI plugins, while also adding EdgeX Foundry LTS support, Kubernetes 1.22 compatibility, and IPv6 networking.
This article highlights Ant Group’s recent technical achievements—including green carbon‑reduction scheduling, the AntDTX trusted privacy sandbox for mobile anti‑fraud, the open‑source YinYu privacy‑computing platform, the OceanBase database competition, and the Space5D security parallel‑slice architecture—showcasing their impact on sustainability, security, and open‑source collaboration.
The Eclipse Foundation has launched the Adoptium Marketplace, a vendor‑neutral online hub offering TCK‑certified, AQAvit‑verified OpenJDK‑based Java SE binaries optimized for cloud‑native and enterprise deployments, while highlighting the rapid growth and quality challenges of the Java runtime ecosystem.
This article examines HashiCorp's Nomad as a lightweight, versatile orchestration tool, compares its features, strengths, and weaknesses against Kubernetes, and helps readers decide which platform best fits their workloads and operational requirements.
This article compares Alibaba Cloud's MSE cloud‑native gateway with the traditional Nginx Ingress Controller across performance, cost, reliability and security, presenting benchmark data, CVE analysis, architectural advantages, and a step‑by‑step migration plan for Kubernetes clusters.
ZRTC, the real‑time audio‑video platform behind 作业帮, has been refined for over three years to support massive, multi‑cloud, multi‑protocol live streaming, employing a unified SDK, intelligent scheduling, custom SFU services, and extensive performance tuning to achieve high concurrency, low latency, and robust high‑availability.
This article explains Docker's layered image storage, shows how improper layering inflates image size and download time, and provides a practical design method using shared base layers to streamline CI/CD pipelines and improve resource efficiency.
Facing the limitation of LoadBalancer services on bare‑metal Kubernetes, this guide walks through the background, MetalLB overview, and step‑by‑step deployment using BGP, including environment setup, configuration files, and verification of external IP routing.
This article details Snowball's transition from a single‑datacenter setup to a dual‑active, cloud‑native architecture using Apache APISIX, covering background challenges, problem analysis, gateway selection, architectural adjustments, authentication unification, observability enhancements, ZooKeeper integration, and future plans.
The Kube-OVN v1.10.0 release introduces Windows node support, user‑defined subnet ACLs, enhanced Kubevirt networking, Submariner multi‑cluster integration, and a series of control‑plane performance optimizations that together improve scalability, flexibility, and stability for cloud‑native Kubernetes deployments.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Kubernetes, covering its revolutionary role in cloud computing, master‑worker architecture, core concepts such as Pods and Controllers, storage and networking models, workload types, and extensibility through CRI, CNI, and CSI standards.
This article explains how to build highly available microservice systems by defining clear service boundaries, employing graceful degradation, change‑management strategies, health checks, self‑healing, cache failover, retry logic, rate limiting, bulkheads, circuit breakers, and testing techniques to mitigate failures in distributed environments.
This article chronicles Alibaba's three‑stage evolution of Envoy Gateway—from the 1.0 incubation that powered Double‑11 traffic, through the 2.0 growth phase adding north‑south routing and hybrid‑cloud support, to the mature 3.0 release that unifies traffic and micro‑service gateways with high performance and community‑driven extensions.
This article introduces the APISIX API gateway, explaining its cloud‑native architecture built on OpenResty and Etcd, the advantages over traditional monolithic service frameworks, detailed feature breakdowns, performance benchmark comparisons with OpenResty, multi‑cluster management practices, usage scenarios, monitoring, logging, and future development directions.
