Announcing NGINX Plus R8

2016-01-19 KENNETH 0

NGINX, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of NGINX Plus Release 8 (R8), the latest release of our application delivery platform. Prominent among the features in NGINX Plus R8 is the OAuth Technology Preview, an implementation of OAuth-based authentication. OAuth 2.0 is the industry standard for authentication and authorization. It can be used to add Single Sign On (SSO) to your applications as well as control access to your APIs. In addition, this release includes a fully production-ready and hardened implementation of HTTP/2, a persistent on-the-fly reconfiguration API, scalable caching for large video files, and many more features to ensure flawless application delivery. The key new features in NGINX Plus R8 are: OAuth Technology Preview – OAuth 2.0 has become the industry standard for managing user identity on the Internet. When you use your Facebook or Google account to log in [ more… ]

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NGINX and Netflix Contribute New sendfile(2) to FreeBSD

2016-01-15 KENNETH 0

Open source is the driving force for more and more innovation in technology and business, and open source is the new standard for application development, as described in our blog post, The Three Waves of Open Source Development. NGINX is one of the most significant open source projects, powering nearly half of the world’s busiest websites. We’re proud of the many significant contributions from our team, both at work and individually. Open source technology and contribution are core to our values as a company. Now NGINX has teamed up with our partner Netflix, another driving force in open source, to offer a new implementation of the sendfile(2) system call, for FreeBSD only, which further speeds up TCP data transfers. sendfile runs fast because it avoids copying file data into a buffer before it’s sent. The new version of sendfile further [ more… ]