Apache APISIX is a high-performance, real-time open-source API and AI Gateway with advanced traffic management features like dynamic routing, load balancing, and authentication. It serves as a powerful alternative to commercial platforms like Google Apigee, offering flexibility, extensibility, and cloud-native support.
Key Features:
- API Gateway Functionality: Load balancing, canary release, authentication, and observability.
- AI Gateway Capabilities: AI proxying, LLM load balancing, retries, fallbacks, token-based rate limiting, and security.
- Plugin Support: Extensible via a variety of plugins.
- Cloud-Native: Designed for modern cloud environments.
Use Cases:
- API Management: Efficiently manage and secure APIs.
- AI Workloads: Enhance the efficiency and reliability of AI agents.
- Microservices: Route and manage traffic for microservices architectures.
- LLM Applications: Provides secure and scalable LLM API calls.
