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High‑Performance Caching with NGINX and NGINX Plus This post is adapted from a webinar by Owen Garrett, introduced by Andrew Alexeev. Table of Contents Introduction  0:00 Introduction  1:22 About This Webinar  2:17 Basic Principles of Content Caching  2:35 Basic Principles  3:59 Mechanics of HTTP Caching  7:46 What does NGINX cache? Content Caching and NGINX  9:55 NGINX in Operation 10:06 NGINX Config 11:14 Caching Process 15:32 Caching is Not Just for HTTP 17:10 How To Understand What’s Going On 17:38 Cache Instrumentation 19:08 Cache Instrumentation (Cont.) 20:09 Extended Status 21:57 How Content Caching Functions in NGINX 22:40 How It Works 23:53 How is Cached Content Stored? 26:36 Loading Cache From Disk 28:07 Managing the Disk Cache 29:22 Purging Content From Disk Controlling Caching 31:27 Controlling Caching 32:30 Delayed Caching 34:45 Control Over Cache Time 36:18 Cache / Don’t Cache 37:25 Multiple Caches 39:07 [ more… ]

Announcing NGINX Plus R10 We are excited to announce NGINX Plus Release 10 (R10), our most significant release yet. NGINX Plus extends the open source NGINX software with advanced functionality and award‑winning support, providing customers with a complete application delivery solution. With this release we are providing a number of new features to dramatically improve the security and performance of applications delivered by NGINX Plus, along with additional features for improved network integration and support for customization of NGINX Plus through scripting. To learn more about NGINX Plus R10, join our webinar on August 31, 2016 at 10:00 AM PDT. NGINX Plus R10 features the initial release of our web application firewall (WAF), powered by ModSecurity and fully supported by NGINX, Inc. Web application attacks increased by 50% in the past year and DDoS attacks more than doubled, according to Akamai. Every application is now at risk of being attacked. NGINX Plus with ModSecurity WAF helps protect web applications from [ more… ]

Taking Microservices Home This post is adapted from a keynote presentation by Zhamak Dehghani at nginx.conf in September 2015. Table of Contents  0:00 Introduction  0:30 Collaborate via Choreography  2:30 Battling the Monoliths  6:09 Building a Model for Migration  8:20 Find the Seams  8:51 Measure Toxicity 11:24 Deconstructing the Monolith 12:13 Service Modeling is Difficult 17:24 Constructing Microservices 21:06 Find your Granularity 22:07 Leap in our Empathetic Evolution 0:00 Introduction So it’s been four years since microservices architecture first captured our attention. It was promised as an architectural style that lets us compose small, unique services around business domain problems to build complex and wonderful solutions. A network of interconnected services choreographed beautifully to give our users an uninterrupted experience. 0:30 Collaborate via Choreography This was a grassroots movement, and our developer community felt quite passionate about it. Obviously, we embraced its complexity [ more… ]