---
title: "Unifying the Gates: Building Flipkart’s Centralized API Gateway for 10x Scale"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/unifying-the-gates-building-flipkart-s-centralized-api-gateway-for-10x-scale-oltdcehoo
source_url: https://blog.flipkart.tech/unifying-the-gates-building-flipkarts-centralized-api-gateway-for-10x-scale-d2023feec352
type: article
source: "Flipkart Tech"
published: 2025-10-25T21:01:37.652Z
updated: 2025-10-25T21:02:03.179Z
tags: ["microservices", "api-gateway"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 76
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Unifying the Gates: Building Flipkart’s Centralized API Gateway for 10x Scale

**[Flipkart Tech](https://daily.dev/sources/flipkart)** · 7 min read · 76 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Flipkart built Nexus, a centralized API gateway using open-source APISIX, to replace their fragmented infrastructure where each team managed separate gateway functions. The solution consolidates authentication, rate-limiting, and session management into a unified platform achieving 99.99% availability with sub-10ms p99 latency overhead. The three-plane architecture (management, control, and data planes) uses etcd for real-time configuration updates and deploys across multiple data centers for high availability. The MART organization serves as a case study, showing how Nexus eliminated redundant systems and standardized API management across diverse channels.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://blog.flipkart.tech/unifying-the-gates-building-flipkarts-centralized-api-gateway-for-10x-scale-d2023feec352>

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