Enterprise-Grade Cloud Storage with NGINX Plus and Minio This is a guest blog post by Nitish Tiwari, a software developer for Minio, a distributed object storage server specialized for cloud applications and the DevOps approach to app development and delivery. Nitish’s interests include software‑based infrastructure, especially storage and distributed systems. In this post, Nitish explains how to use NGINX and NGINX Plus as a reverse proxy and load balancer for Minio servers. The post applies equally to NGINX and NGINX Plus; for brevity it refers to NGINX Plus only. Designing Object Storage Almost all applications need storage, but different apps need and use storage in particular ways. Take for example, a document store: it might not need to serve frequent read requests when small, but needs to scale as time progresses. Another application, such as an image gallery, needs to both satisfy requests quickly [ more… ]