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NGINX Plus vs. F5 BIG-IP: A Price-Performance Comparison table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } td { padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } Recently a number of our customers, including AppNexus and IgnitionOne, have replaced leading hardware application delivery controller (ADC) appliances with NGINX Plus, and have seen both large cost savings and significant performance gains. They are not alone – other massive web properties have found that software implementations of ADC functions (including historically hardware‑intensive capabilities like SSL/TLS cryptography) have proven to be more than fast enough for their workloads. We recently published an NGINX Sizing Guide based on the results from a range of tests measuring the performance of NGINX Plus on bare-metal servers. In this article, we compare those [ more… ]

Service Discovery for NGINX Plus Using DNS SRV Records from Consul Our previous blog post on service discovery with Consul discussed the importance of service discovery in distributed systems, including service-oriented and microservices architectures. It described how to use NGINX Plus’ on‑the‑fly reconfiguration API to dynamically add or remove load‑balanced servers that are registered with Consul. In this blog post, we will go over another method to dynamically reconfigure your upstream servers in NGINX Plus using Consul’s DNS interface. With this method, NGINX Plus periodically re‑resolves the service name using Consul DNS. If the list of IP addresses associated with the service has changed, NGINX Plus immediately starts load balancing across the updated group of servers. To make it easier to combine upstream reconfiguration in NGINX Plus with Consul DNS, we’ve created a sample demo, consul-dns-srv-demo, with step‑by‑step instructions for creating the configuration described in [ more… ]