1️⃣ About API7.ai, the original creator of Apache APISIX API7.ai, founded in 2019, is an open-source infrastructure company that empowers API management and analysis. It provides a wide range of products and solutions for microservices and real-time traffic processing, such as API Gateway, Kubernetes Ingress Controller, and Service Mesh. API7.ai donated APISIX to the Apache Software Foundation in 2019. Based on Apache APISIX, API7.ai built a full API lifecycle management solution, API7 Enterprise. API7.ai is committed to providing comprehensive and efficient API design, development, portal, and monetization solutions, serving a diverse range of global clients. 2️⃣ About API7 Enterprise (Enterprise version of Apache APISIX) API7 Enterprise extends the powerful foundation of Apache APISIX with enterprise-grade capabilities, ensuring a seamless migration path from the open-source project. API7 Enterprise boasts compliance with various industry standards, including GDPR, FIPS, and SOC 2 certification. It is equipped with advanced functionalities such as RBAC, multi-environment management, audit logging, traffic labeling, and SOAP protocol conversion. It facilitates full lifecycle management through integrated API design tools and platforms, ensuring efficient development and deployment. Moreover, API7 Enterprise incorporates a built-in API portal, enabling organizations to monetize their APIs effectively. 3️⃣ About Apache APISIX (Open-Source API Gateway) Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance open-source API gateway that provides rich traffic management functions such as load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, and observability. Being built based on NGINX and LuaJIT, Apache APISIX has ultra-high performance with a single-core QPS of up to 23,000 and an average delay of only 0.2 milliseconds. As an API gateway, Apache APISIX has a wide range of application scenarios. Apache APISIX is now the most active API gateway project on GitHub, addressing 1 Trillion+ API calls per day, which is still growing. At present, it has been tested and highly recognized by worldwide enterprises and organizations such as Zoom, Airwallex, Lotus Cars, vivo, and European Factory Platform.