sidebar_position: 1 title: Soul Introduction keywords: [“soul”] description: This is an asynchronous, high-performance, cross-language, responsive API gateway.

What is the Soul?

This is an asynchronous, high-performance, cross-language, responsive API gateway.

Features

  • Support various languages (http protocol), support dubbo, spring-cloud, Grpc, Motan, Sofa, Tars protocol.
  • Plugin design idea, plugin hot swap, easy to expand.
  • Flexible flow filtering to meet various flow control.
  • Built-in rich plugin support, authentication, limiting, fuse, firewall, etc.
  • Dynamic flow configuration, high performance.
  • Support cluster deployment, A/B Test, blue-green release.

Architecture Diagram