Why is API Gateway essential to business

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Apache APISIX is presented as a high‑performance, real‑time API gateway donated by API7.ai with hot reload for routes and plugins via a REST API and etcd data plane for sub‑second sync, avoiding NGINX/Kong reload bottlenecks. Plugins run in Lua plugins runtime with plugin‑runners for Go/Java; benchmarks claim higher throughput and better route scaling than Kong. Project metrics: ~10k GitHub stars, ~500 contributors, 27 PMC members; deployed at companies like Tencent, WPS, Airwallex and NASA.

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1. 0:00API Gateway essentials
2. 3:06Monolith vs microservices
3. 6:02What is API management
4. 7:50Security and performance
5. 9:35Open source API gateways
6. 13:15Why build APISIX
7. 16:06Dynamic and real-time APISIX
8. 18:00APISIX benchmarks
9. 20:29APISIX plugins
10. 22:01Community growth and global contributors
11. 24:06APISIX Cloud features
12. 28:03Q&A

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