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Building Your API for Longevity, Part 2: Best Practices td { padding-right: 10px; } This post explains how to build an effective API. Once it’s ready, you need to make it accessible to your users. NGINX and NGINX Plus are frequently used as an API gateway. For more information, check out these resources: The announcement for NGINX Plus R10, which includes support for the use of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs, or “jots”) for authentication A description of how to implement API authentication with JWTs from our own Liam Crilly A video describing how Adobe powers its API gateway with NGINX This post is adapted from a presentation delivered at nginx.conf 2016 by Mike Stowe of MuleSoft. This second part focuses on best practices. The first part discusses spec‑driven API development. You can view a recording of the complete presentation on YouTube.   Part [ more… ]

Building Your API for Longevity, Part 1: Spec-Driven Development td { padding-right: 10px; } This post explains how to build an effective API. Once it’s ready, you need to make it accessible to your users. NGINX and NGINX Plus are frequently used as an API gateway. For more information, check out these resources: The announcement for NGINX Plus R10, which includes support for the use of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs, or “jots”) for authentication A description of how to implement API authentication with JWTs from our own Liam Crilly A video describing how Adobe powers its API gateway with NGINX This post is adapted from a presentation delivered at nginx.conf 2016 by Mike Stowe of MuleSoft. This first part focuses on spec‑driven API development. The second part, focused on best practices, is coming soon. You can view a recording of the complete presentation [ more… ]

Monitoring NGINX and NGINX Plus: Highlights from Our Blog The bigger and busier your site, the more important it is to monitor it. A good monitoring solution gives you visibility into your site helping you maintain uptime, performance, and security. Monitoring is one of the most popular topics on the NGINX blog, with a completely new, NGINX‑focused monitoring tool – NGINX Amplify – added in the last year. There are three types of monitoring solutions we’ve highlighted on the NGINX website: Active health checks and monitoring in NGINX Plus. Third party solutions from NGINX partners such as AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace, and New Relic. NGINX Amplify, our new tool for monitoring application delivery with NGINX and NGINX Plus – introduced in 2016, and now in a very popular public beta. Active Health Checks and Monitoring in NGINX Plus Active health checks are one of the most useful features in [ more… ]

Moving to NGINX Plus: Highlights from Our Blog Over the past year we’ve seen tremendous growth in NGINX Plus, from adding many new enterprise customers to our first ever inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. NGINX Plus extends the open source NGINX software with advanced functionality and award‑winning support, giving our customers a complete application delivery solution. There a number of great reasons to move to NGINX Plus, and in this blog post we will highlight three: cost savings, new features, and “evergreen” features. 1. Cost Savings One of the most popular use cases for NGINX Plus is load balancing. In most enterprises today this is handled by hardware appliances such as the F5 BIG-IP and Citrix Netscaler. Though these appliances have served enterprises well for 30 years, they are now limiting, in terms of features, flexibility, and functionality, and [ more… ]

Quantum Health Automates Deployments and Improves Security with NGINX Plus     Situation Quantum Health is a health care benefits coordinator that guides employers and their health plan members through the complex healthcare process, and provides a single point of contact for its clients’ health benefits and programs. Quantum Health’s clients are large self-funded organizations who need a benefits coordinator to provide compassionate, quality care for employees (“members”) while eliminating wasteful healthcare costs. With such a valuable approach, Quantum Health’s business is on the rise. A key component of Quantum Health’s solution is a portal where members manage their accounts, check the status of claims, and carry out other healthcare-related activities. For each of its clients, Quantum Health hosts and deploys a unique portal with a unique domain name. Although each customer gets a separate domain, the sites all share [ more… ]