Articles by KENNETH

Bluestem Brands Migrates from Monolith to Microservices Efficiently with NGINX Plus Enabling Improved Performance and Continuous Delivery   Situation Bluestem Brands, Inc. is the parent to 16 fast-growing e-commerce retail brands. The company offers a unique mix of retail and payment options for a diverse set of customers with a wide range of financial needs. Bluestem Brands runs a separate site for each of its brands where customers shop for apparel, shoes, gifts, home accessories, and more. Three of the Bluestem Brands sites – Fingerhut, Gettington, and Paycheck Direct – extend credit to shoppers, letting them pay for purchases over time. Shoppers log in, check the balances on their accounts, and shop. Until recently, Bluestem operated these three sites on a legacy architecture with a monolithic application for each brand. The machines that handled production traffic for the sites hosted [ more… ]

Get the Hands‑On Guide to CI/CD with Docker in this Free O’Reilly Ebook It’s no secret that the use of Docker and container technologies is on the rise. We recently surveyed the broad community of NGINX and NGINX Plus users and found that a full two‑thirds of organizations are investigating or already using containers in some way. Whether you’re already running contained applications in production or are still thinking about putting them on your roadmap, if you’re using the modern DevOps approach to software delivery you need to know the best practices for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) in Docker‑based environments. The O’Reilly book Using Docker by Adrian Mouat provides a wealth of practical guidance on incorporating Docker into your full software development lifecycle. The final stages of the lifecycle – integrating Docker into your CI/CD workflows and ultimately into your production environment – [ more… ]