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Reflections on #NGINXConf 2019 It was a great privilege for me to fly to Seattle a couple of weeks ago and see colleagues, partners, customers, and community users coming together for NGINX Conf 2019: two jam‑packed days of keynotes and breakout sessions at the beautiful Sheraton Grand Seattle hotel. I joined NGINX in November 2018, and had heard about Conf since the start. Thankfully, I didn’t miss out on the fun this year, and even got interviewed about my excitement around the event! Now that it’s done for another year, I’m back in our EMEA offices in Cork Ireland, and I’ve had some time to think about what I enjoyed the most. Evolving Apps, Evolving Cultures One of the major themes from this year’s Conf was the concept of applications as living organisms, as explained by Gus Robertson in his Day 1 keynote and [ more… ]

Digital Transformation in a New Era of Application Delivery Application development and delivery has been changing drastically in the last number of years. The growth of public cloud is a large catalyst for this change. Public cloud provides the ability to provision and scale infrastructure on demand, with almost limitless possibilities for distributing services across all corners of the world. These changes have not only caused a shift in how applications are developed, but in the approach to application delivery. The legacy approach to application development typically involves hosting your own data center or building an application‑centric infrastructure within a colocation facility. Many organizations distribute their infrastructure across numerous physical locations, whether it be a set of regional offices well‑disposed to running IT infrastructure or a group of colocations strategically located near a user base. In order to provide the [ more… ]