1. Comparing a Few Common Gateways Nginx, a reverse proxy with a modular design, written in C OpenResty, a web development platform built around Nginx that can parse and execute Lua scripts Kong, an application on top of OpenResty, an API gateway with API management and request proxying, using PostgreSQL for storage APISIX, which replaces Kong’s PostgreSQL with Etcd and is built on Nginx’s core libraries APISIX’s advantage lies in the API management and extensibility it provides, so the gateway no longer merely forwards traffic to services but can be configured and customized.