Envoy’s request routing engine powers some of the world’s largest API gateways and service meshes. This post breaks down its architecture, route matching mechanics, weighted cluster strategies, and production patterns you can apply today.
A hands-on guide to deploying Envoy Proxy as a production API gateway, covering circuit breakers, retries, rate limiting, and health checking patterns that keep your microservices alive under pressure.
A deep dive into Kong Gateway’s rate limiting and request transformation capabilities, covering sliding windows, distributed rate limiting, header manipulation, and production-grade patterns for building resilient APIs.
How to design, configure, and operate Envoy as an API gateway for gRPC streaming services — covering protocol translation, observability, and the failure modes that bite in production.
An LLM gateway centralizes routing, auth, caching, and observability across providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and self-hosted models. Here’s how it works in production and why most teams end up building one.