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NGINX Conf 2018 in Atlanta Features A New “Deep Dive” Track for Expert Developers For NGINX Conf 2018, we’ve decided to create a separate “Deep Dive” track for the most NGINX‑savvy and hardcore of our attendees. So while your boss attends the business‑value talks, you can get to work. Join us in Atlanta GA, October 8–11. What’s special about the sessions in the Deep Dive track? Absolutely practical and hands‑on information No high‑level messaging Configuration and code are provided and explained in detail Content by and for expert engineers and DevOps practitioners Here are just a few of the great sessions we’re looking forward to: Yichun Zhang, Founder and CEO of OpenResty and author of many NGINX modules, including the very popular lua-nginx-module, will talk about troubleshooting web servers and backends. You will learn how to use dynamic tracing and other advanced [ more… ]

51Degrees NGINX Plus Certified Module Combines Patented Device Detection with the Simplicity of NGINX 51Degrees often receives queries from new clients who are using NGINX Plus load balancing and need to implement a quality device‑intelligence solution for high fidelity analytics, increased conversion rates, and quality user experiences. The 51Degrees NGINX Plus Certified Module provides the starting point for that complete service, combining the fastest patented device detection with the simplicity of NGINX Plus.   With the 51Degrees NGINX Plus Certified Module, customers can perform device detection at the network layer. Thus they benefit from the speed and accuracy available in the C‑language API, while enabling any applications downstream to utilize the device data regardless of the programming language they are written in. Why Use Device Detection? Device detection enables you to improve the user experience by delivering content that is: Optimized for specific devices – [ more… ]

Announcing NGINX Plus R16 table.nginx-blog, table.nginx-blog th, table.nginx-blog td { border: 2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } table.nginx-blog { width: 100%; } table.nginx-blog th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td { padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td.center { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 16 (R16) is now available. Today’s release is one of the most important in advancing NGINX’s technical vision. With R16, NGINX Plus now functions as a single, elastic ingress and egress tier for all of your applications. What this means is that you can consolidate the functionality of a load balancer, API gateway, and WAF into a single software package that spans any cloud. Many companies we talk [ more… ]

Deploying NGINX Plus as an API Gateway, Part 3: Publishing gRPC Services This is the third blog post in our series on deploying NGINX Plus as an API gateway. Part 1 provides detailed instructions for several use cases of NGINX Plus as the API gateway for RESTful, HTTP‑based APIs. Part 2 extends those use cases and looks at a range of safeguards that can be applied to protect and secure backend API services in production. This post explains how to deploy NGINX Plus as an API gateway for gRPC services. The concepts and benefits of microservices application architectures have been well documented in recent years, and nowhere more so than on the NGINX blog. At the heart of microservices applications is the HTTP API, and the first two blog posts in this series use a hypothetical REST API to illustrate how NGINX Plus addresses this style [ more… ]