Today is June 6, 2021, the 666 anniversary of Apache APISIX open Source! 🎉
Apache APISIX was open source on June 6, 2019, and entered the Apache incubator in October of the same year. In this short period of two years, It has become a top Apache project!
Before entering the Apache incubator, Apache APISIX only had more than 20 contributors. Now, there are 249 contributors in projects related to Apache APISIX. In a year and a half, Contributor numbers have grown tenfold! The Apache APISIX community is also very active, with 2,303 PR submitted by 249 contributors as of today, and a new version is released every month.
Contributor growth curve
In life, when you go to buy air tickets, brush micro-blog, buy milk tea, behind the key traffic is handled by Apache APISIX. In these two years, Apache APISIX has been widely used by a lot of enterprises, covering finance, Internet, manufacturing, retail, operators and so on, such as NASA, THE European Union’s digital factory, China Airlines, Tencent, Huawei, Weibo, Shell looking for a house, China Mobile, Taikang, 360, Naixue tea and so on. (Apache APISIX user list: https://github.com/apache/api…
In August 2019, Apache APISIX released its first version 0.6.0. This release brings many new features: health check, service fuses, Debug mode, distributed tracking, JWT authentication, and built-in dashboards.
Version 1.0, released in January 2020, is the first production release of Apache APISIX. This release not only supports new features that match different upstream services based on header, args, priority, and the same URI, but also improves code stability and documentation, such as: The addition of custom development plug-in documentation, Oauth plug-in usage documentation, Dashboard compilation documentation, how to do a/ B testing documentation, how to enable MQTT plug-in documentation, etc., shows that Apache APISIX is starting to be used in more and more environments.
Release a new version every month, we’re serious! In October 2020, we released version 2.0. Version 2.0 is migrated from ETCD V2 to V3. Only ETCD 3.4 and later versions are supported. It supports adding labels to upstream objects, adding more fields to upstream and routing resources, using interceptors to protect routes of plug-ins, and listening on multiple ports through HTTP and HTTPS. Added the AK/SK(HMAC) authentication plug-in and referer-Restriction plug-in.
Sixteen days ago, we released APISIX 2.6! In this release, some of the most popular new features are supported, such as writing custom plugins in other languages, which are now available in Java and will be available in Go later this month! In addition, the 2.6 ecosystem already fully supports Nacos service discovery, supports configuring IPv6 DNS resolvers, and supports changing the default Prometheus port to no longer expose the ports on the data plane.
Apache APISIX aims to be more than just an API gateway. Apache APISIX wants to be a layer 4 and 7 traffic handler and connecter in the cloud native era. All configurations in Apache APISIX are dynamic, which is important for flexible scaling in the cloud native era and for multi-cloud deployments. We believe Apache APISIX is the best choice for the cloud native era. Welcome to the Apache APISIX open source community, and welcome to Apache APISIX!
In the past two years, the team behind Apache APISIX — Shenzhen Branch Technology has gradually developed and expanded. From the beginning, there were only two people, Wen Ming and Wang Yuansheng, to today, dozens of partners have joined in polishing the new generation of cloud native API gateway. It’s also cool that Branch Tech is a remote team of dozens of people in 10 cities and 2 countries connected via GitHub, Slack, Gmail, or Notion so you can work from home, in a cafe, or while traveling.
Group photo of part of the team
Apache APISIX cannot be built without everyone in the community. A special thanks to the Apache APISIX community contributor and community users for their contributions to Apache APISIX. On the second anniversary of Apache APISIX open source, the community has prepared a nice little gift for every Contributor and user! Let’s celebrate 2 years of Apache APISIX open Source.
Apache APISIX is 2 years old. Happy birthday!
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