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Traffic Management

Microservices may crash, but your application shouldn’t. Edge Stack API Gateway includes support for automatic retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and rate limiting to maximize application availability.

Edge Stack API Gateway traffic management feaures

Load balancing

Load balancing allows you to maximize the scalability and availability of your application by efficiently distributing network traffic among backend services. Ambassador supports the following load balancing techniques:

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Round Robin →

Sticky Sessions →

Least Request →

Circuit breaking

Circuit breakers limit the blast radius of an overloaded service by preventing additional connections or requests to an overloaded service.

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Circuit Breakers →

Automatic Retries →

Progressive delivery

Manipulate production traffic for testing features before release with Edge Stack’s traffic management controls.

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Canary Releases →

Header-based routing →

Traffic Shadowing →

Next steps

Edge Stack API Gateway delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations.

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