F5 and NGINX: Delivering Flexible, Secure, and Durable Applications from Code to Customer
F5 and NGINX: Delivering Flexible, Secure, and Durable Applications from Code to Customer Businesses are always looking for the next competitive advantage. Customers have more choice than ever, and expect every interaction to look, feel, and function as seamlessly as the Facebook and Google apps they use every day. As enterprises race to build new applications and roll out capabilities to meet their customers’ demands, a distinct pattern has emerged, often called “shadow IT”. In a traditional IT architecture with monolithic applications, the infrastructure or network operations (NetOps) team usually controls app deployment, which is subject to strict compliance, governance, and security requirements. But DevOps teams in such environments – faced with both the internal pressure to innovate and the external pressure to bring services to market quickly – often circumvent such controls for the sake of agility. Even if [ more… ]
