Navendu Pottekkat

We are in the midst of a mass migration. While out-of-the-box solutions like Nginx have served us well for the past two decades, the proliferation of APIs as the standard building blocks for modern applications demands better, API-first abstractions. This has forced many companies to migrate from solutions like Nginx to custom in-house alternatives. However, many of us don't have the necessary resources to build something ourselves and have to rely on existing solutions, even though they are quickly becoming imperfect. But this isn't inevitable. In this talk, Navendu introduces Apache APISIX, an open source API gateway that offers the security and stability of Nginx while allowing users to tailor it to their needs. Attendees will learn how tools like Nginx fail to meet modern application needs and why they might need to leverage an API gateway solution.