A New, Open Source Modern Apps Reference Architecture, Ready for You to Steal! At NGINX we’ve been talking for the last several years about the need to make applications truly modern and adaptive – portable, cloud native, resilient, scalable, and easy to update. More recently, two concepts have come to the fore that facilitate the creation and delivery of modern apps. The first is Platform Ops, where a corporate‑level platform team curates, maintains, connects, and secures all the tools that development and DevOps teams need to do their jobs. The second is shifting left, which means integrating production‑grade security, networking, and monitoring into applications during earlier stages of the development lifecycle. Developers end up with more responsibility for functions that used to belong to ITOps, but at the same time have more choices and more independence in exactly how they implement [ more… ]