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apisix

The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

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13Mentions
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17.3KGitHub stars
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The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:24:10 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-11-05 15:57:46 UTC to 2026-10-12 05:24:02 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> I think etcd is basically a k8s only project now I hate etcd with the best of them, but etcd is used in a lot more places than just kubernetes: https://github.com/apache/apisix/blob/master/docs/en/latest/... https://github.com/traefik/traefik#:~:text=Etcd, https://github.com/zalando/patroni#patroni-a-template-for-po... https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/0.0.26/etcd (this one shows up on HN quite a bit) https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon#features It's actually one of the major reasons I wouldn't touch those projects
In Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?
Some insights: Apache APISIX Slack channel[1] is under the Apache Software Foundation, and 1000+ members joined in to ask questions or share cases around Apache APISIX API Gateway or its Ingress Controller. After asking users why they prefer Apache APISIX than other solutions, there have four important points: 1. Feature Rich: Many users need to use API Gateway with OpenID Providers (e.g., Auth0, Keycloak), other solutions sold this feature on Enterprise Product only. There has one How-to guide "Use Keycloak with API Gateway to protect your APIs". 2. Quick Support: Apache APISIX has many active contributors and maintainers, they keep watching activities on GitHub[3], Slack[1], Mailing List and other channels. When users ask questions, they respond quickly, the goal is to help users onboard quick. 3. Apache Project: After APISIX project wa
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s donated to the Apache Software Foundation, it means nobody can change its License any more, so enjoy Apache projects ([https://www.apache.org](https://www.apache.org)). 4. Benchmark is excellent, and the most active maintainer's explaination here[4]: LuaJIT + Nginx. P.S Welcome to join Apache APISIX Slack[1] to discuss, and you can find many useful posts from its blog[5]. - 1. https://apisix.apache.org/slack - 2. https://apisix.apache.org/blog/2022/07/06/use-keycloak-with-... - 3. https://github.com/apache/apisix - 4. https://apisix.apache.org/blog/2021/08/25/why-apache-apisix-... - 5. https://apisix.apache.org/blog
In Apache Apisix: Open-Source API Gateway and API Management Platform
For API gateways, I recommend APISIX: https://github.com/apache/apisix/ Claim: I am the core developer of APISIX, and I am also the core developer of OpenResty (known as Nginx + Lua). I have written Go for several years and I have contributed to github.com/golang/go. We have done some benchmarks around APISIX, Kong, Tyk. APISIX is the fastest (APISIX > Kong > Tyk). All of them have rich features and fantasy GUI. If people really care about the performance, it would be good to consider APISIX. Remember to benchmark every candidates in your own environment, even if you do not benchmark them correctly (every vendor complains others can't do benchmark correctly, some even don't allow others to do benchmark[1][2]), it is the way you use them in the production. Advertisement time is over. Let's talk something irrelevant to my employer. If you c
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are about performance, forget about writing a plugin with a guest language. A guest language is a language doesn't supported by the gateway natively, like Go in Kong and Lua in Tyk. The performance waste in ctx serialization and IPC are huge. I have seen these complains for more than one. > Imagine how many crazy long tail problems nginx has already solved There is a problem I believe that API Gateways based on Go can't solve it unless Go have made its GC as good as Java's. Some people have consulted with me about replacing their Go implementation to a Nginx or Envoy one because this problem. [1]: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-... [2]: https://konghq.com/evaluation-agreement/ Read the 1.5(e).
In Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway

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