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Why the Fall of Net Neutrality Could Smother Innovation Our current digital age was built on the creativity inspired by a free and open Internet. The long‑term consequences of repealing it may jeopardize that creativity. The Internet is a utility that can and should be open to the world’s innovators. We are possibly living in the final days of net neutrality. There are countless articles and analyses out there examining exactly which regulations are changing and what the December 14 vote means for the Internet, but that’s only part of the story. What’s more striking to me is the enduring legacy these changes may have on the engineers and entrepreneurs of tomorrow, the next generation of creators building a connected world we haven’t dreamed up yet. There was much fanfare recently when a ZDNet article argued that the FCC’s proposed changes [ more… ]

Announcing NGINX Plus R14 We’re pleased to announce that NGINX Plus R14 is now available to our NGINX Plus subscribers. NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, and web server. NGINX Plus R14 is based on the open source NGINX software and previous NGINX Plus releases. The new release also includes authentication and clustering enhancements, additional features, bug fixes, and our award-winning 24-hour support. With NGINX Plus R14, you can enforce access controls using JSON web tokens (JWT). With new support for nested JWT claims, NGINX Plus can allow or grant access based on group membership information nested inside a JWT. Native JWT authentication support, first introduced in NGINX Plus R10, enables NGINX Plus to be used as an authentication gateway for your APIs and applications. Additional NGINX Plus R14 features include: Extended clustering support (technology preview) – [ more… ]