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Shared Caches with NGINX Plus Cache Clusters, Part 1 How can you build a large‑capacity, highly available, cache cluster using NGINX or NGINX Plus? This is the first of two posts that each describe an approach to meeting this goal; the second post is coming soon. (Except as noted, the approaches apply equally to open source NGINX and NGINX Plus, but for brevity we’ll refer to NGINX Plus only.) An Overview of NGINX Plus Caching NGINX Plus can operate as a proxy cache server, sitting between the origin server and remote clients. NGINX Plus manages the traffic to the origin server and caches (stores) common, unchanging resources. This allows NGINX Plus to respond directly to clients when these resources are requested and thus reduces the load on the origin server. NGINX Plus’ proxy cache is most commonly deployed in a data center next to the origin server, and [ more… ]

Enterprise-Grade Cloud Storage with NGINX Plus and Minio This is a guest blog post by Nitish Tiwari, a software developer for Minio, a distributed object storage server specialized for cloud applications and the DevOps approach to app development and delivery. Nitish’s interests include software‑based infrastructure, especially storage and distributed systems. In this post, Nitish explains how to use NGINX and NGINX Plus as a reverse proxy and load balancer for Minio servers. The post applies equally to NGINX and NGINX Plus; for brevity it refers to NGINX Plus only. Designing Object Storage Almost all applications need storage, but different apps need and use storage in particular ways. Take for example, a document store: it might not need to serve frequent read requests when small, but needs to scale as time progresses. Another application, such as an image gallery, needs to both satisfy requests quickly [ more… ]

Get the Hands‑On Guide to CD with Java and Docker in this Free O’Reilly Report For more than 21 years Java has been a workhorse in the IT industry. Java has become the all‑purpose programming language used to create large monolithic enterprise applications. But as enterprises move towards microservices, which involves breaking down application logic into smaller components, does Java still have a place? Though it may seem like a strange mix at first, combining battle‑hardened Java with emerging technologies like Docker and continuous delivery (CD) can make Java a powerful tool in microservices‑based application environments. In this exclusive free O’Reilly report, industry veteran Daniel Bryant provides a practical guide to combining Java with the latest technologies to get the best of both worlds. He covers, in thorough detail, how to containerize Java applications, fit them into CD pipelines, and monitor them [ more… ]

Inside NGINX Amplify: Insights from Our Engineers This blog post is the fourth in a series about how to monitor NGINX and make the most out of your web delivery infrastructure with NGINX Amplify: Setting Up NGINX Amplify in 10 Minutes Improving Server Configuration with NGINX Amplify Reports Using NGINX Amplify Custom Dashboards and Filters for Better NGINX Monitoring Inside NGINX Amplify: Insights from Our Engineers (this post) The public beta version of NGINX Amplify is now used on thousands of servers. Many sysadmins and DevOps personnel have implemented it in their development, staging, and production environments. Feedback has been very positive, but we are receiving many requests for more examples of how to use it in the real world. We asked ourselves: who knows NGINX and NGINX Amplify the best? Well, it’s definitely our own DevOps professionals. So we interviewed two of our experienced operations [ more… ]

Top 10 Blog Posts from NGINX The past year has been a big one for us here at NGINX, Inc. Our open source product, NGINX, recently became the web server of choice at the majority of the 100,000 busiest websites in the world. For the first time, we were included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers. And NGINX Plus took a big step up in its ability to secure your sites and apps with the introduction of the ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF). Our customers, and potential customers, keep up on all of these developments through the NGINX blog. Our top all‑time blog posts show our customers’ interest in three main topics: New releases of NGINX Plus Microservices Performance All three topics show the strength of NGINX software – both the open source NGINX software, which was first released 12 years [ more… ]