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Updating the NGINX Application Platform with New Clustering, API Management, and Service Mesh Capabilities h4 { font-weight:bold; } The world is going digital at breakneck speed. Technology is front and center in our day‑to‑day lives. From entertainment to banking to how we communicate with our friends, technology has changed how we interact with the world. Businesses of all sizes and in all industries are rolling out compelling digital capabilities to attract, retain, and enrich customers. Every company is now a technology company. Companies on this journey need to master digital transformation and many turn to NGINX to create a modern application stack. More than 319 million websites rely on our open source software. Our technology helps companies remove friction from digital delivery, optimize digital supply chains, and roll out digital services faster. The NGINX Application Platform is a consolidated set of [ more… ]

Introducing NGINX API Management: Manage NGINX Plus API Gateways with NGINX Controller Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become central to the digital economy. Forbes dubbed 2017 the year of the API economy. According to Programmable Web, the de facto journal of the API economy, APIs have witnessed explosive growth over the last five years. Since January 2014, an average of more than 2,000 public APIs have been added per year, and today there more than 19,000. APIs Drive Innovation, Unlock Data, and Modernize Applications What accounts for the dramatic growth in the use of APIs? APIs help drive innovation and accelerate time to market. They provide new opportunities to generate revenue and build partnerships with third‑party developers as well as your entire business ecosystem of suppliers, distributors, resellers, and even customers. Google Maps is an illustrative example. Many third‑party websites and applications embed a [ more… ]

Securing the Perimeter: Achieving Zero Trust with NGINX Plus and SSO/Rest The move to cloud computing means that more of our data, our operations, and our business are being repositioned to face the public Internet; sensitive assets are no longer necessarily tucked away in the corporate data center, accessible only to on‑site personnel. The new risks resulting from this paradigm shift are increasingly rendering existing access control models insufficient and are rapidly driving the security community to embrace the “Zero Trust” approach to security as the gold standard for resource protection. In a Zero Trust architecture, there is no longer a trusted network inside a corporate perimeter and an untrusted world outside. Instead, “microperimeters” are constructed around data and resources, allowing fine‑grained access control policies to be enforced at all locations. (For a detailed discussion of Zero Trust, see the [ more… ]