Nicolas Frankel149 articles

My journey in programming began over two decades ago, a time when JavaScript was a far cry from its current state, and developers were primarily focused on Microsoft Internet Explorer.

I’m continuing my journey on getting more familiar with HTTP APIs by reading related RFCs.

DRY is an important principle in software development. In this article, you learn how to apply it to Apache APISIX configuration.

A simple implementation of the Idempotency-Key header specification on Apache APISIX via a plugin.

Practical alternatives to writing a custom plugin, offering solutions you can quickly implement in your projects.

Let’s compare three different ways to do OpenTelemtry Tracing: Java agent v1, Java agent v2, and Micrometer Tracing.

Lots of service providers offer a free tier of their service. The idea is to let you kick their service’s tires freely. If you need to go above the free tier at any point, you’ll likely stay on the service and pay.

In this post, we implement rate limiting with Apache APISIX. We set the rate limit on a route and moved it to individual consumers. Then we moved it to consumer groups, so all consumers in a group share the same “pool”.

If no cookie is set, randomly forward the request to one of the upstreams, if a cookie has been set, forward the request to the correct upstream.

Here I describe using the proxy-rewrite plugin with a path variable. You can reuse the same technique with multiple variables.