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Buydig.com Gets Enhanced Security and Performance with NGINX Plus Securing and Simplifying a High Traffic E-Commerce Website     Situation Buydig.com is a fast growing e-commerce store with nearly 50,000 daily visitors – and even more during its peak shopping season. From photography equipment to computer accessories to home entertainment systems, Buydig.com offers a comprehensive selection of consumer electronics at low prices across several countries.     In 2003 – the early days of Buydig.com – the website was built as a two-layer application, with a Microsoft IIS web server and SQL Server as the backend database. But as the number of visitors increased over time, that architecture couldn’t keep up with the traffic. Pages slowed down and eventually stopped responding. Also, without a frontend load balancer and reverse proxy, Buydig.com was vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. “Our search for a [ more… ]

How Buydig.com Scales and Secures Its Microsoft .NET App Without Changing a Single Line of Code Enhancing Security and Performance for a High Traffic E-Commerce Website with NGINX Plus     Situation Buydig.com is a fast growing e-commerce store with nearly 50,000 daily visitors – and even more during its peak shopping season. From photography equipment to computer accessories to home entertainment systems, Buydig.com offers a comprehensive selection of consumer electronics at low prices across several countries. In 2003 – the early days of Buydig.com – the website was built as a two-layer application, with a Microsoft IIS web server and SQL Server as the backend database. But as the number of visitors increased over time, that architecture couldn’t keep up with the traffic. Pages slowed down and eventually stopped responding. Also, without a frontend load balancer and reverse proxy, [ more… ]

Building a Web Frontend with Microservices and NGINX Plus Here at NGINX we’ve begun exploring the frontiers of microservices application development through our NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture, with a sample photo storage and sharing site as our prototype. This blog post is the first in a series of articles dedicated to exploring the real-world problems and solutions that developers, architects, and operations engineers deal with on a daily basis in building their web-scale applications. This article addresses an application-delivery component that has been largely ignored in the microservices arena: the web frontend. While many articles and books have been written about service design, there is a paucity of information about how to integrate a rich, user-experience-based web component that overlays onto microservice components. This article attempts to provide a solution to the thorny problem of web development in a microservices [ more… ]