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Load Balancing AWS Auto Scaling Groups with NGINX Plus table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } td { padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } td.center { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } One of the most beneficial features of the cloud is the ability to automatically scale the number of computing instances. With AWS Auto Scaling, you can change the number of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group, either manually or automatically, based on schedule or demand. Auto Scaling helps reduce cost by adjusting the number of instances to the right number for the current workload. Additionally, Auto Scaling restarts failed instances, which adds resilience to your applications. Load balancing is crucial when using Auto Scaling. AWS provides load balancing of [ more… ]

NGINX Customer Support Takes Gold in the 2017 Stevie Awards We’re extremely proud to announce that the NGINX, Inc. customer support team has won a Gold Stevie® Award in the 2017 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. This is the second consecutive Stevie Award win for the team that supports our NGINX Plus customers. After beating 60% of nominees to reach the finals, NGINX was named a Gold winner in the Front‑Line Customer Service Team of the Year – Computer Software category. The judging panel is made up of experts from sales and customer service organizations spanning the globe, and representing almost every industry. “NGINX products are known for their superior quality, and we believe our customers deserve equally superior support,” says Gus Robertson, CEO, NGINX, Inc. “We’re honored that the NGINX Plus support team has been recognized again for its commitment to helping our customers [ more… ]

Optimizing Your Website with the Google PageSpeed Dynamic Module for NGINX Plus As the average size of web pages continues to grow, it is increasingly important to optimize all aspects of design, development, and delivery of your website in order to ensure a good experience for your users, regardless of what device they are using. It is well documented that page load time impacts user experience and revenue. Google PageSpeed is a suite of tools for measuring and optimizing the performance of your website, and has been available for several years as a third‑party module you can compile into open source NGINX. With the introduction of dynamic modules in NGINX Plus R11, NGINX Plus users can now take advantage of PageSpeed as well. When you load PageSpeed as a dynamic module into NGINX Plus, it automatically rewrites and optimizes resources on your website. In [ more… ]

New Video: BuzzFeed Moves From Monolith to Microservices with NGINX Plus BuzzFeed is a global media company that produces and distributes original news, entertainment, and video across its sites, mobile apps, and other digital platforms. To serve its global audience, BuzzFeed handles more than 7 billion content views every month. This impressive reach presents an exciting opportunity for BuzzFeed engineers to scale their application. Previously, BuzzFeed had one large monolithic application. Over the past year, BuzzFeed gradually moved to microservices, which made it more difficult to route URLs to the correct backend application. BuzzFeed’s IT team started off routing traffic in the CDN and found that the configuration there became more and more complicated. They needed a smarter way of routing pages to their applications. Watch the video with John Cleveley, Senior Engineering Manager at BuzzFeed, to learn how BuzzFeed [ more… ]

Learn How to Stop Worrying and Build Your Own CDN td { padding-right: 10px; } This post is adapted from a presentation delivered at nginx.conf 2016 by Jamie Panagos of Charter Communications. You can view a recording of the complete presentation on YouTube. Table of Contents Introduction 0:25 CDN Functions 0:50 IP Video CDN Performance Criteria 1:13 Why Build Your Own CDN? 1:25 Commercial CDNs Do a Pretty Darn Good Job 2:00 The Viewers are Coming 2:26 What is Driving the Growth? 3:09 All Content is Not Equal 4:13 The Impetus 5:16 Customization Insertion Points 5:52 The Decision 7:20 Success Criteria 9:48 How Might One Build a CDN? 10:37 Charter Implementation 12:55 CDN Topology 14:48 The CDN Stack 16:50 Why NGINX? 17:56 Results 19:16 Moore’s Law Cost Trending 20:10 What’s Next 22:19 To Cache or Not to Cache? 24:19 A Feature-Rich Edge 26:14 [ more… ]