Fantastic API Gateways and Where to Find Them
summary
Surveyed 38 CNCF projects, picked two service proxies and two API gateways, and compared real implementations of URL mapping/rewrite, global vs local rate limiting, two-stage secret management, external-authorization integration, and HTTP caching (noting caching is partial and tool-dependent). Found Envoy provides high performance and extensibility but with complex configuration; Traefik gives automatic service discovery and easy Let’s Encrypt; Kubernetes-native gateways simplify configuration at the cost of extensibility.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00API Gateway intro
- 3:03Why gateways matter
- 8:39Essential features
- 12:14Proxy vs gateway
- 14:03Envoy and Traefik
- 17:12Ambassador and NGINX
- 19:42Implementing features
- 26:31Choosing the right tool
- 28:16Q&A
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