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Gus Robertson Keynote with Igor Sysoev – nginx.conf 2016 We will soon provide a link to the video of this talk, and will soon have blog posts and videos for other nginx.conf 2016 talks as well. Table of Contents 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Businesses are the Applications You Build 1:48 Prime Minister Begins Census 1:59 The Australian Census Website Goes Down 3:04 Census Collectors 3:31 Census Affects Prime Minister’s Credibility 4:04 Don’t Make Your Best Day Your Worst 6:46 NGINX Statistics 8:40 The World is Changing 9:07 Three Times Growth 9:34 Online Consumer Spending 10:10 Online Research 10:41 Online Purchase Times 11:22 Size of the Opportunity 11:52 Business-to-Consumer is Driving 12:59 Digital Business is Here 14:05 Top Five Companies 14:26 Apps are the New Marketplace 15:21 Traditional Enterprise See This Change 15:28 They’re Making Adjustments 16:09 Heal Gives Peace of Mind [ more… ]

Using nginScript to Progressively Transition Clients to a New Server Building customized upstream selection with JavaScript code With the launch of NGINX Plus R10, we introduced a preview release of our next‑generation programmatic configuration language, nginScript. nginScript is a unique JavaScript implementation for NGINX and NGINX Plus, designed specifically for server‑side use cases and per‑request processing. One of the key benefits of nginScript is the ability to read and set NGINX configuration variables. The variables can then be used to make custom routing decisions unique to the needs of the environment. This means that you can use the power of JavaScript to implement complex functionality that directly impacts request processing. Editor – This is the fourth in a series of blog posts that explore the new features in NGINX Plus R10 in depth. This list will be expanded as later articles are published. Authenticating API Clients [ more… ]

Authenticating Users to Existing Applications with OpenID Connect and NGINX Plus Using JWT support to provide SSO for existing applications OAuth 2.0 has done much to transform the flexibility and user experience of authenticating to websites and applications. But despite the name, the OAuth 2.0 specification says very little about verifying end‑user identity and nothing about single sign‑on (SSO). That’s where OpenID Connect comes in – it is essentially the missing piece that carries identity information in OAuth 2.0 access tokens. OpenID Connect identity tokens comply with the JSON Web Token (JWT) specification. JWT (pronounced “jot”) tokens are compact, easy to pass around, and provide a common core schema for describing identity information. The great thing about JWTs is that they can be applied to almost any identity use case, from authenticating API clients to providing SSO for enterprise applications. In fact, many organizations that use Google Apps can [ more… ]

NGINX Named by Gartner as a Top Application Delivery Controller for Modern Day Application Delivery From its founding, NGINX has focused on building software to help the next generation of digital businesses develop and deploy their applications with the utmost performance, reliability, security, and scale, and has done so with the support of a vast community of open source users. We are proud to announce that Gartner has recognized NGINX’s strengths in both its Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers1 and Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Delivery Controllers2 Reports for 2016. According to Gartner, application delivery controllers (ADCs) “are a key component within enterprise and cloud data centers to improve application availability, performance and security. However, the market is in a state of flux, with a growing divergence between the needs of traditional I&O and application‑centric personnel.” This is being driven [ more… ]