blog: add article on APISIX 3.16 dynamic rate limiting#2028
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Introduce the new multiple rules and variable support in limit-count, limit-conn, and ai-rate-limiting plugins. All configuration examples have been validated against a live APISIX 3.16.0 instance.
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Adds a new English blog article announcing and explaining APISIX 3.16’s “dynamic rate limiting” enhancements (multi-rule support + variable-based configuration) with several full configuration examples and links to plugin docs.
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- Adds a new blog post: “What’s New in Apache APISIX 3.16: Dynamic Rate Limiting for Your API Gateway”.
- Documents multi-rule usage for
limit-count,limit-conn, andai-rate-limitingwith multiple end-to-end JSON examples. - Includes upgrade/getting-started commands and links to relevant plugin documentation.
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Reviewed all 6 configuration examples by running them against a live APISIX 3.16.0 instance. All examples pass Admin API schema validation (201 Created). However, 3 examples fail at runtime and 1 is silently non-functional. Details are inline below.
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- Add key-auth plugin to Example 1 (per-tier), Example 3 (limit-conn),
and the combined example: ${consumer_name} requires an authenticated
consumer; without it the rule is silently skipped and APISIX returns 500
- Replace bare 'global' constant key with '${http_host ?? global}' in
Example 3 (limit-conn), the ai-rate-limiting example, and the combined
example: plain constant strings produce n_resolved=0 and are skipped
at runtime due to an APISIX bug (filed at apache/apisix#13180)
- Add prerequisite note to the ai-rate-limiting section: the plugin is
silently inactive without ai-proxy, which sets picked_ai_instance_name
Remove blockquote warning boxes and fold the context into the surrounding paragraphs so the article reads smoothly: - Example 1: mention key-auth inline in the setup sentence - Example 3: explain key-auth and the shared-key variable in the lead-in sentence rather than as a standalone note - AI rate limiting: introduce ai-proxy dependency in the section opener as a natural description of how the plugin works - Combined example: describe key-auth and the global key choice as part of the feature walkthrough
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limit-count,limit-conn, andai-rate-limitingpluginsTest plan