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The State of Modern App Delivery 2020: Results from Our Annual User Survey As a company with its roots in the open source community, we’ve always relied on input from community members, as well as our customers, to help us choose and prioritize new features and enhancements. One of the best sources of input is your responses to our annual survey. This year we concentrated on how you’re developing and deploying your apps – in particular how you’re using microservices, containers, and infrastructure platforms, and what your challenges are. Check out the complete infographic: Modern Apps and Microservices As in the industry at large, more and more of the organizations where you work are migrating from monolithic to microservices‑based apps. And there’s a complementary increase in use of these technologies in production environments. This suggests a growing confidence that microservices‑based apps [ more… ]

Secure Cloud-Native Apps Without Losing Speed Organizations are rapidly adopting cloud‑native app delivery – 27% of organizations plan to deploy more than half of their apps in the cloud by the end of this year and by 2022, 35% of all production apps will be cloud native, according to the API management survey that NGINX commissioned from IDC for 2019. The drive to cloud migration and cloud‑native app development unlocks IT agility and exceptional digital experiences for customers. And yet cloud‑native app delivery comes with challenges of security, visibility, and control. Why do these challenges persist? We’re seeing several drivers. Risks of Cloud-Native App Delivery Here are some of the pain points we observe in cloud‑native app delivery: Cloud‑native app delivery causes tool sprawl and offers inconsistent enterprise‑grade services Apps hosted in the cloud are considered more difficult to manage than on‑prem apps, not [ more… ]

Three Key Takeaways from NGINX’s AMA Panel During AnsibleFest 2020 p.quote { text-indent: 20px; white-space: nowrap; font-style: italic; } As modern applications continue to take center stage in today’s world, automation has become the driving force that helps every organization – not just the big players – deliver the rich digital experiences that consumers have come to expect. Red Hat Ansible is a simple yet powerful IT automation engine, helping companies to speed up application delivery and accelerate their DevOps initiatives. NGINX, F5, and F5’s DevCentral customer community all offer certified Ansible collections and official roles, helping to speed deployment time and reducing the resources needed to manage modern infrastructures. In fact, the official NGINX Ansible role is one of the most popular on Ansible Galaxy, with more than 750,000 downloads since it first launched in 2018. This year during AnsibleFest 2020, the [ more… ]