🆚 Apache APISIX vs. KrakenD
Apache APISIX
KrakenDType
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Apache APISIX is an open-source, cloud-native API gateway built on 
Nginx and LuaJIT.
It provides load balancing, dynamic upstreams, canary releases, circuit breaking, and traffic splitting, applies configuration changes through etcd without restarts, and includes over 100 plugins for authentication, traffic control, and observability.
KrakenD is an open-source, high-performance, stateless API gateway written in 
Go .
It aggregates responses from multiple microservices into a single endpoint, provides rate limiting, circuit breaking, traffic shadowing, and bot detection, supports 
JWT, 
OAuth2, 
OpenID, and mTLS authentication, and offers unified LLM interfaces for 
OpenAI, Anthropic, and 
Gemini.
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