Protecting your APIs is no easy task. As the size of your APIs increase, so does the overhead that comes with adding security to each of your endpoints.

A solution is to setup an API gateway like Apache APISIX, which accepts all the requests to your APIs and in turn calls the various APIs required to fulfil the request and return the appropriate response.

APISIX can also protect your APIs by being the central system that handles authentication, authorization, rate-limiting, logging and monitoring.

In this talk, Navendu introduces Apache APISIX and how development teams can leverage them to easily build secure APIs.

Speakers:

Navendu Pottekkat: API7.ai, Developer Advocate, Navendu Pottekkat works as a Developer Advocate for API7.ai. As an open source maintainer, Navendu’s passion for designing, developing, and deploying scalable, distributed systems is evident in each initiative he advances. He is also dedicated to help new contributors to open source by mentoring through Google Summer of Code and Linux Foundation Mentorship Program. Navendu writes and gives talks about the cloud native ecosystem and his experience in contributing to, building, scaling, and maintaining open source projects.