Announcing NGINX Plus Certified Modules

2017-04-05 KENNETH 0

Announcing NGINX Plus Certified Modules Today we are pleased to announce the availability of NGINX Plus Certified Modules. With certified modules you can add advanced functionality developed by NGINX partners into NGINX Plus through the dynamic module capability introduced in NGINX Plus R11. All certified modules meet our strict requirements for compatibility with NGINX Plus, and are tested and certified so you can deploy them with confidence that they’ll work well in your environment. Dynamic modules are an exciting enhancement for NGINX Plus users who want to get more out of their NGINX Plus deployments and for partners who want to deliver new functionality on the NGINX Plus application delivery platform. Modules reduce TCO by utilizing existing infrastructure rather than adding additional layers and proxies. Performance is also improved since a module uses a more efficient architecture and is deployed closer to the application. We envision a wide [ more… ]

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NGINX Named an “IDC Innovator” in Cloud-Native Application Delivery

2017-04-05 KENNETH 0

NGINX Named an “IDC Innovator” in Cloud-Native Application Delivery NGINX earns prestigious industry recognition as the cloud‑native ADC powering most of the world’s busiest websites and applications. We are proud to announce that NGINX, Inc. has been named an International Data Corporation (IDC) Innovator in cloud‑native application delivery controllers (ADCs). As an application delivery controller, NGINX Plus provides key functionality such as content caching and load balancing to improve application performance and scale. The IDC Innovators: Cloud‑Native Application Delivery Controllers, 2017 report (IDC #US42127817) recognizes NGINX, Inc. as a cloud‑native ADC vendor with innovate technology and a groundbreaking business model. “NGINX Plus is at the forefront of the industry trend towards microservices and dynamic application architectures,” said NGINX, Inc. CEO Gus Robertson. “We’re proud to be recognized as an innovator and leader in helping customers migrate to modern web application architectures. We pride ourselves on our [ more… ]

The Dreaded 418 Error: Monitoring HTCPCP Microservices in IoT Deployments

2017-04-01 KENNETH 0

The Dreaded 418 Error: Monitoring HTCPCP Microservices in IoT Deployments The Internet of Things (Iot) is a growing segment of the technology market today. NGINX and NGINX Plus are often at the core of IoT deployments because of their small footprint, high performance, and ease of embedding into various devices. We see NGINX and NGINX Plus installed both on the server side and on the device side very often. IoT installations can use a variety of popular protocols, including HTTP, HTTP/2, MQTT, and CoAP. We’ve covered the use of our products with HTTP protocols in many blog posts, and MQTT use cases in two recent posts: NGINX Plus for the IoT: Load Balancing MQTT NGINX Plus for the IoT: Encrypting and Authenticating MQTT Traffic But NGINX and NGINX Plus are equally suited for special‑purpose protocols such as the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control [ more… ]

NGINX Plus for the IoT: Encrypting and Authenticating MQTT Traffic

2017-03-30 KENNETH 0

NGINX Plus for the IoT: Encrypting and Authenticating MQTT Traffic Editor – This is the sixth in a series of blog posts about nginScript. The first post discusses why NGINX, Inc. developed its own implementation of JavaScript, and presents a sample use case. The subsequent posts explore additional use cases: Introduction to nginScript Using nginScript to Progressively Transition Clients to a New Server Advanced Logging with nginScript in “Scaling MySQL with TCP Load Balancing and Galera Cluster” Data Masking for User Privacy with nginScript Load Balancing MQTT with nginScript for Session Persistence in “NGINX Plus for the IoT: Load Balancing MQTT” Using Client Certificates to Authenticate MQTT Clients in “NGINX Plus for the IoT: Encrypting and Authenticating MQTT Traffic” In the first part of this two‑part series of blog posts about NGINX Plus and the Internet of Things (IoT), we showed how NGINX [ more… ]

NGINX Plus for the IoT: Load Balancing MQTT

2017-03-24 KENNETH 0

NGINX Plus for the IoT: Load Balancing MQTT When it comes to the busiest websites on the Internet, NGINX and NGINX Plus dominate the market. In fact, NGINX powers over 50% of the top 1000, top 10,000, and top 100,000 sites. Its ability to handle over 1 million concurrent connections on a single server has driven its adoption by “hyperscale” sites and apps such as Airbnb, Netflix, and Uber. Although NGINX Plus is most commonly known as a web server, HTTP reverse proxy, and load balancer, it is also a fully featured application delivery controller (ADC) with support for TCP and UDP applications. Its event‑driven architecture and all of the other attributes that have made it successful for HTTP use cases are equally applicable to the Internet of Things (IoT). In this article we show how NGINX Plus can be used to load balance MQTT traffic. MQTT [ more… ]