When and How to Migrate Your F5 BIG-IP Hardware Load Balancer to NGINX Software
When and How to Migrate Your F5 BIG-IP Hardware Load Balancer to NGINX Software The way enterprises architect applications has changed. According to our recent user survey, 58% of applications in an enterprise portfolio are monoliths, where all of the application logic is packaged and deployed as a single unit. That percentage is down from 65% just a year ago, underlining how quickly enterprises are pivoting toward more modern application architectures. In the same survey, we found the remaining 42% of applications are either entirely or partially composed of microservices (where the functional components of the application are refactored into discrete, packaged services). Moreover, 42% of these organizations already use microservices in production and 40% claim microservices are highly important to their business strategy. It’s clear that microservices – originally the domain of cloud‑native companies like Google, Netflix, and Facebook – are now a mainstay in enterprise [ more… ]