This article compares four API‑gateway solutions—Spring Cloud Gateway, NGINX, Envoy, and Kong—detailing their core strengths, drawbacks, suitable scenarios, configuration snippets, and practical selection rules to help architects pick the right gateway for microservice systems.
This article details the end‑to‑end architecture of a high‑traffic business middle platform, covering business and technical design, Kong API Gateway, SpringBoot microservices, Dockerfile creation, MyCat‑MySQL sharding, cold/hot data strategies, DevOps pipelines, Kubernetes deployment, and operational monitoring.
This article explains what an API gateway is, outlines its core data‑plane and control‑plane functions, compares popular open‑source gateways such as Nginx, Zuul, Spring Cloud Gateway, Kong and Traefik, and then details a custom Traefik‑based microservice gateway built with Go and Etcd.
This article compares Kong, Gloo, and Higress on their AI‑related extensions—covering tech stacks, logging, proxy normalization, API‑key handling, caching, request/response rewriting, and RAG support—to help developers choose the most suitable gateway for emerging LLM workloads.
This article provides an in‑depth overview of API gateway concepts, design principles, key features such as routing, load balancing, security, resilience, and compares popular gateway solutions like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway for microservice architectures.
This article presents a comprehensive case study of a high‑traffic business middle‑platform built with SpringBoot microservices, Kong API Gateway, MyCat‑sharded MySQL, Docker containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools, detailing design decisions, implementation tricks, and operational lessons learned.
This article explains the concept of API gateways, compares popular solutions such as Kong, Zuul, Spring Cloud Gateway and Tyk, details Kong's architecture, features, performance benchmarks, deployment scenarios, monitoring setup, and the practical problems encountered with their resolutions.
The article details a real‑world case study of building and operating a high‑traffic business middle‑platform for a leading consumer‑goods company, covering business and technical architecture, API gateway selection, SpringBoot microservices, custom MyBatis, logging, SSL, Docker, MyCat sharding, K8s deployment, CI/CD pipeline, and monitoring solutions.
This article explains the role of API gateways in microservice architectures, outlines their four core functions, discusses design priorities such as high performance, availability, and scalability, and compares major open‑source gateway solutions like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway.
This article explains why API gateways are essential in micro‑service architectures, outlines their four core functions, discusses high‑performance, high‑availability, and scalability design goals, and compares major open‑source gateways such as OpenResty, Kong, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway to help engineers choose the right solution.
This article explains the fundamentals of API gateways, outlines their core functions, compares popular solutions such as Nginx, Zuul, Spring Cloud Gateway, Kong, and Traefik, and details a custom Traefik‑based gateway architecture with its technology stack, backend design, and protocol‑conversion module.
This article explains what an API gateway is, outlines its core data‑plane and control‑plane functions, compares popular open‑source gateways such as Nginx, Zuul, Spring Cloud Gateway, Kong and Traefik, and details a company‑specific microservice gateway built on Traefik with Etcd and Go.
This article analyzes and compares the routing matching processes of the open‑source API gateways APISIX and Kong, detailing their initialization, rule generation, categorization, matching algorithms, performance testing, and concluding why APISIX's radix‑tree approach yields higher efficiency.
This article explains what an API gateway is, why it is needed in micro‑service architectures, outlines core design ideas such as routing, service registration, load balancing, resilience and security, distinguishes traffic and business gateways, and compares major open‑source implementations like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul 1/2 and Spring Cloud Gateway.
This article explains how Nginx evolved into the Kong API gateway through OpenResty, describes Kong’s plugin architecture and micro‑service‑oriented capabilities, and demonstrates setting up and managing Kong with Konga on Tencent Cloud, including monitoring, logging, and high‑availability features.
The article chronicles the architectural evolution of China Telecom's Tianyi Account gateway—from its 2017 Zuul‑based 1.0 implementation, through a 2.0 redesign using Kong with custom plugins, to the current 3.0 version featuring CP/DP separation, multi‑language plugins, and cloud‑native deployment, highlighting performance gains, scalability, and operational improvements.
This article explains what an API gateway is, why it is needed in micro‑service architectures, outlines core design ideas such as request routing, service registration, load balancing, resilience and security, and compares major open‑source gateways like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul 1/2 and Spring Cloud Gateway.
This article details the architectural evolution of China Telecom's Tianyi Account gateway, describing the migration from a Zuul‑based 1.0 system to a Kong‑driven 2.0 and 3.0 platform, the performance improvements, plugin ecosystem, cloud‑native deployment, and operational benefits achieved through each upgrade.
This article details the architectural evolution of China Telecom's Tianyi Account gateway from its initial Zuul‑based 1.0 version through a Kong‑based 2.0 redesign to the high‑performance, multi‑language, hybrid‑deployment 3.0 architecture that now supports over 100 k QPS and 99.96% SLA.
This article outlines a comprehensive, cloud‑native rate‑limiting solution using Kong gateway, covering background challenges, design considerations, multi‑layer architecture, plugin development, CI/CD workflow, deployment strategies, and operational best practices to achieve low cost, high efficiency, and high quality across diverse projects.
This article explains how to design API gateways by comparing common gateway solutions, outlining essential design aspects such as routing, service discovery, load balancing, resilience, security, and high performance, availability, and scalability, and summarizing the strengths of OpenResty, Kong, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway.
This article chronicles the architectural evolution of China Telecom's Tianyi Account gateway from its initial Zuul‑based 1.0 version through successive upgrades to a Kong‑powered 2.0 and 3.0 system, highlighting performance bottlenecks, technology selections, plugin development, CP/DP separation, cloud‑native deployment, and the resulting high‑concurrency capabilities.
This article explains the fundamentals of API gateways, their role in microservice architectures, key design considerations such as routing, load balancing, security, and elasticity, and compares major open‑source implementations like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway.
This article compares popular API gateways such as Nginx, Zuul, Spring Cloud Gateway, Kong, and Traefik, explains their core features and selection criteria, and details a custom Traefik‑based microservice gateway architecture built with Etcd and Go.
This article details the step‑by‑step design, architecture, plugin configuration, authentication methods, code implementation, and performance testing of a Kong‑based API gateway built to handle millions of QPS during large‑scale events, highlighting challenges, solutions, and future directions.
This article details the step‑by‑step evolution of a company's business gateway from a single Nginx instance to a cloud‑native, Kubernetes‑based Kong deployment, covering the initial architecture, identified risks, custom controller implementation, performance testing, graceful shutdown, and smooth traffic switching strategies.
This guide walks through deploying Kong and its UI Konga on Kubernetes, covering configuration of PostgreSQL, handling common initialization errors, correcting environment variables, and ensuring successful startup with detailed YAML and Docker commands.
The article demonstrates how to integrate Paddle Serving’s new security‑gateway feature with the open‑source Kong API gateway and its Konga UI, using Docker‑Compose to create a secure, HTTPS‑encrypted, header‑authenticated AI model serving endpoint that hides internal services while supporting high‑concurrency inference.
This article details a multi‑lane approach for test environment governance that isolates services, databases, and messaging, dramatically improves stability and efficiency, and outlines the technical architecture, implementation steps, challenges, and future automation plans.
This article explains the fundamental concepts of API gateways, their design motivations, key features such as routing, load balancing, security, and elasticity, and compares popular implementations like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway for microservice architectures.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to the open‑source Kong API gateway, covering its architecture built on OpenResty, step‑by‑step installation on CentOS, core components, key features, plugin ecosystem, authentication, traffic control, logging, and a comparison with other gateways, while also showing how to set up the Kong Dashboard UI.
This article explains the purpose of API gateways in microservice architectures, outlines their key capabilities such as unified routing, security, logging and rate limiting, describes when they are needed, and reviews popular open‑source and cloud offerings like Kong, Alibaba Cloud, and Goku.
This article introduces the fundamentals of API gateways, explains why Haodf replaced Nginx with Kong, details Kong's architecture, plugins, traffic segmentation, rate‑limiting strategies, monitoring, and operational considerations for deploying Kong in a micro‑service environment.
After three years of evolving a Python‑based HR SaaS backend from a simple MVC prototype to a microservices architecture with domain‑driven design, the author shares the architectural stages, challenges faced, and practical optimizations such as uWSGI‑gevent, Redis pooling, Kong API gateway, and custom RPC framework.
The author recounts a three‑year journey of scaling a Python‑based HR SaaS backend from a simple Django MVC prototype to a microservice architecture with domain‑driven design, detailing each architectural stage, the challenges faced, and the concrete optimizations applied.
The author recounts a four‑stage evolution of a Python‑based SaaS backend—from a simple Django MVC prototype through service splitting, microservice adoption with Kong and custom RPC, to an exploratory domain‑driven design—highlighting practical problems, optimizations, and architectural trade‑offs.
This article chronicles Yanxuan's API gateway evolution—from the early ServiceMesh 1.0 and Ianus (Kong‑based) gateway, through edge‑gateway transitions, to the cloud‑native Envoy gateway—detailing architecture choices, deployment patterns, plugin development, and the operational benefits gained.
Kong’s Insomnia Designer adds a collaborative, spec‑first environment for designing REST and GraphQL APIs, integrates CI/CD, GitOps, and Kubernetes, and embeds Kong gateway policies directly into API specifications, boosting productivity for cloud‑native development.
This article introduces Kong, a cloud‑native API gateway, outlines its key features such as high performance, plugin architecture, and traffic control, explains why it solves common microservice challenges, and provides detailed deployment, clustering, plugin development, and troubleshooting guidance with practical code examples.
This article introduces Kong, a cloud‑native API gateway, outlines its key features such as high performance, plugin architecture, and built‑in security, explains why it solves common microservice challenges like unified entry, scalability and CI/CD, and provides step‑by‑step guidance for deployment, clustering, custom plugin development, and troubleshooting.
The iQIYI API Gateway, built on Kong/Nginx, offers a high‑performance, extensible entry point that centralizes API configuration, routing, authentication, rate‑limiting, and disaster‑recovery across regions, managing over 4,000 APIs and 30 billion daily requests while reducing operational complexity for micro‑service governance.
This guide walks you through installing Kong API gateway and its open‑source management UI Konga using Docker, covering network creation, database selection, container configuration, migration, verification, and final UI access, all with clear commands and examples.
This article provides an in‑depth overview of logging strategies from Docker to Kubernetes, explains the security architecture of Kubernetes clusters, and outlines best‑practice deployment of the Kong microservice gateway within a Kubernetes environment, offering practical insights for cloud‑native DevOps engineers.
This article explains microservice architecture and the role of API gateways, introduces Kong as a high‑availability gateway, and provides a step‑by‑step guide for deploying containerized AI services (face, pet, and content moderation) and integrating them with Kong for authentication, rate‑limiting, and secure access.
This article explains Kong’s architecture, core components, key features, plugin ecosystem, request processing flow, and limitations, showing how it provides a high‑availability, horizontally‑scalable API gateway built on OpenResty for modern backend services.
