According to 3rd party statistic in 2020, each big company uses about 420 services, and 83% of all traffic on the Internet today run on API-based services. As the leading high‑performance, lightweight reverse proxy and load balancer, NGINX has the advanced HTTP processing capabilities needed for handling API traffic. This makes NGINX the ideal platform with which to build an API gateway. In this session, we make it easy for everyone to learn and test NGINX as an API gateway.