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- ArchitectureAug 6, 2025
The gateway zoo — API, Event, Kafka, AI gateways through Conway's law
Why every new gateway category — Event, Kafka, AI, Agent — keeps trying to fold itself into the API gateway. And when to let it, and when not to.
Mustafa Halil YıldızFounder6 min - ArchitectureApr 5, 2025
Gateway zoo: API, Event, Kafka, and AI gateways through Conway's Law
Why API Gateway scope keeps expanding into Event, Kafka, and AI gateways — and how to balance specialized tooling against organizational reality.
Apinizer TeamArchitecture7 min - ArchitectureMar 18, 2025
Apinizer's active-active architecture: eliminating SPOF risk
How active-active deployment removes the API gateway as a single point of failure, delivers 99.999%+ availability, and enables geographically redundant API infrastructure.
Apinizer TeamPlatform5 min - ArchitectureNov 7, 2024
Rate limit, throttling, and quota management: a comprehensive overview
How Apinizer controls API traffic with distributed caching for short-term limits and persistent storage for long-term quotas — including fixed vs sliding windows.
Apinizer TeamEngineering6 min - ArchitectureApr 10, 2024
Understanding the API Gateway: an airport analogy
How enterprises manage external communications through an intuitive airport analogy — security, capacity, routing, translation, and monitoring all under one roof.
Apinizer TeamArchitecture3 min - ArchitectureMar 26, 2024
API Gateway or the code way
Why API Gateways solve real Web Service management problems — from authentication and security to load balancing — and why solving every concern in code stops scaling.
Apinizer TeamPlatform7 min - ArchitectureFeb 15, 2024
Explaining API and API Management to our parents
A restaurant analogy that makes APIs, API Gateways, and API Management click for anyone — including the non-technical people in your life.
Ertuğrul AslanCo-Founder & Developer4 min
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