https://apoxy.dev/blog Engineering posts, architecture writeups, and the occasional hot take. en-us Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://apoxy.dev/blog/gvisor-cold-start-where-the-time-goes https://apoxy.dev/blog/gvisor-cold-start-where-the-time-goes Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering Dmitry Ilyevsky We measured runsc cold boot on a number of hosts across three clouds and one Mac. The fast number isn't the cloud, the slow part isn't the kernel, and most of the obvious fixes do nothing. https://apoxy.dev/blog/managed-gateway https://apoxy.dev/blog/managed-gateway Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product Matt Ward Why we built one control plane for HTTPRoute across clusters, and what shipping the managed gateway looks like for self-serve teams and in-VPC deployments. https://apoxy.dev/blog/riffing-on-nginx-playground https://apoxy.dev/blog/riffing-on-nginx-playground Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Engineering Dmitry Ilyevsky Forking Julia Evans' Nginx Playground into an Envoy playground in an afternoon — sed, func-e, a CodeMirror fix, and a Fly.io deploy. https://apoxy.dev/blog/announcing-apoxy https://apoxy.dev/blog/announcing-apoxy Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Product Matt Ward Introducing Apoxy: the proxy platform for improving the security, observability, and usability of APIs and services at scale, built on Envoy and WebAssembly.