Deep Dive
Guides show you what to type. Deep Dive explains what the gateway does with it. Every page here takes one feature group and covers it end to end: the configuration surface, the defaults and why they were chosen, how the feature interacts with the request pipeline, and what happens when it fails.
Who this section is for
Section titled “Who this section is for”- Developers already running the gateway who need to tune it rather than start it.
- Engineers designing for production: retries, timeouts, circuit breaking, caching, auth, observability.
- Reviewers who need to judge whether a feature fits their workload before adopting it.
Structure: What it does
Section titled “Structure: What it does”Each page explains the subsystem behaviour in plain terms, outlining architectural responsibilities, data structures, and baseline guarantees.
Structure: Configuration
Section titled “Structure: Configuration”Every page covers every configuration option, its type, its default, and its exact runtime effect.
Structure: Interactions
Section titled “Structure: Interactions”Every page details how the feature composes with the rest of the pipeline, identifying exact hook positions and upstream communication stages.
Structure: Tradeoffs and failure modes
Section titled “Structure: Tradeoffs and failure modes”Every page describes the operational cost of enabling the feature, memory overhead, and behaviour under upstream degradation or resource exhaustion.
Topics
Section titled “Topics”| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Request lifecycle, socket to upstream, process model |
| Core Routing | Radix router, connection pooling, proxy forwarding |
| Resilience | Circuit breakers, retries, active health checks |
| Traffic Control | Rate limiting, response caching, load balancing |
| Payload Handling | Body parsing, streaming, gzip and brotli compression |
| Observability | Prometheus metrics, structured logs, live dashboard |
| Operations | Config validation, plugin hooks, auto-tuning |
| Identity & Security | JWT validation, API keys, RFC 7807 problem details |
| Feature Matrix | Capability inventory and performance ceilings |
| Feature Pack | Advanced extensions and deployment configurations |