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Shared Caches with NGINX Plus Cache Clusters, Part 2 Editor – This is the second part of a series on high‑capacity and high‑availability caching: Shared Caches with NGINX Plus Cache Clusters, Part 1 Shared Caches with NGINX Plus Cache Clusters, Part 2 (this post) How can you build a large‑capacity, highly available cache cluster using NGINX or NGINX Plus? This posts describes how to use two or more NGINX or NGINX Plus cache servers to create a highly available cache cluster. (Except as noted, the method described here applies equally to open source NGINX and NGINX Plus, but for brevity we’ll refer to NGINX Plus only.) Review – the Sharded Cache Solution The first part of this series described a pattern for creating very large, sharded cache clusters. This pattern is effective when you need to create a very large‑capacity cache that can be scaled up [ more… ]

Get Smart: Operational Intelligence for NGINX and NGINX Plus With Splunk Enterprise Splunk® Enterprise is data collection and analysis software that makes it simple to act on the untapped value of the big data generated by your technology infrastructure, security systems, and business applications – giving you the insights to drive operational performance and business results. NGINX, Inc. and Splunk have teamed up to offer the Splunk Add‑On for NGINX and NGINX Plus, which assists with indexing both NGINX log data and NGINX Plus API data, so you can glean valuable information about your NGINX or NGINX Plus deployment and the applications running within your infrastructure. This blog provides step‑by‑step instructions for downloading and configuring the Add‑On, including the following topics: Installing the Splunk Add‑On for NGINX and NGINX Plus Installing the Splunk universal forwarder Configuring logging for NGINX and NGINX Plus Enabling the Splunk Add‑On to [ more… ]

5 Reasons to Switch from F5 BIG-IP to NGINX Plus Last year we compared the price and performance of NGINX Plus to several models of F5 BIG‑IP application delivery controllers. We determined that you can save over 80% in Year 1 by switching to NGINX Plus, while equaling or exceeding the performance of F5 appliances. BIG‑IP ADCs are costly because of their custom hardware, such as Cavium Nitrox chips to accelerate SSL/TLS connections and a custom ASIC to do Layer 4 load balancing in hardware. Custom hardware for load balancing used to be a cost‑effective approach because the equivalent processing power in commodity servers was either not available or far more expensive. But servers have gotten significantly cheaper and faster over time, so custom hardware is now the more expensive option. Also, by focusing on building hardware appliances, F5 has neglected the needs of modern applications, which [ more… ]

The Microservices Reference Architecture, a Free Ebook from NGINX The NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture (MRA) is an exciting new tool for developing fast, reliable, and robust microservices apps. Now, NGINX has created a new ebook to describe the MRA. Download your free copy today! More that two‑thirds of the organizations surveyed by NGINX are using or investigating microservices. But software development often proceeds incrementally, through trial and error. How to get the full advantages of microservices without months or years of costly mistakes and restarts? The MRA provides a solid answer, and our new ebook describes it in detail. The MRA consists of four main components: The Proxy Model, a simple microservices implementation. The Proxy Model uses a single instance of NGINX Plus as a reverse proxy server and focal point for microservices management. The Router Mesh Model, a more [ more… ]

Improve App Security with the Free O’Reilly NGINX Cookbook, Part 2 Over the past year web application attacks increased by 50% and DDoS attacks more than doubled, according to Akamai. The unfortunate truth is that everyone is now a potential target. As businesses become more dependent on applications and the data within them, the consequences of a security breach can be devastating. To help prevent you from falling victim to an attack, we’re releasing the second part of our NGINX cookbook series for free download today. Authored in partnership with O’Reilly Media, it provides easy‑to‑follow recipes for protecting your applications using the open source NGINX software and our enterprise‑grade product, NGINX Plus. Open source NGINX has a number of great security features, such as the ability to make HTTP authentication subrequests and set up secure links with expiration dates. NGINX Plus adds in [ more… ]