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Globo.com Delivers Live Video Streaming to 500,000+ Viewers with NGINX Achieving 25x Performance Over Previous Infrastructure     Situation In 2012, Globo.com, the number one media and entertainment portal in Brazil, had over a million visitors a day and was experiencing unprecedented growth in its online viewership. As the online branch of the country’s top television brand Grupo Globo, Globo.com is responsible for online distribution of the media company’s news, sports, and entertainment to a massive, and yet still fast-growing, audience. Visitors come to Globo.com not just to catch up on news and current events articles, but to enjoy its great video content, with many Globo news reports, TV shows, and sports events broadcast online. These users expect an easy-to-use, high-quality online viewing experience that rivals that of traditional television. The sheer amount of traffic Globo.com had to handle made [ more… ]

NGINX and Zookeeper, Dynamic Load Balancing and Deployments This post is adapted from a webinar hosted at nginx.conf from September 22-24, 2015 by Derek DeJonghe. Table of Contents Introduction Introduction; Who am I?; Topics; The Actors; Goals Cloud and DevOps Concepts Cloud and DevOps Concepts; Microservices; Microservice Complexity; Deploying with More Services; Continuous Deployment; Blue-Green; Blue-Green Deployment; Blue-Green Deployment with NGINX; AutoScaling; Autoscaling Example; Elastic Load Balancer; Why NGINX? ZooKeeper and NGINX Service Discovery; ZooKeeper; Znode Example; How They Work; Node Client; NGINX Client; The Upstream Pools; Application x Version; Pseudocode for Upstream Pools; Result; Requests; Requests Example; Request to Upstream; Request Pseudocode Outcomes The Deploys; Deploys; Deploy Example; The Outcome; Before Implementation; After Implementation; Impact; Questions 0:00 Introduction Welcome, thank you guys for joining me today at NGINX.conf. I’m here to talk about dynamic load balancing and deployments with [ more… ]

OpenShift Ecosystem: Implementing the NGINX Proxy Model on Red Hat OpenShift We here at NGINX are part of the launch of OpenShift Primed, a technology program announced today with the launch of the OpenShift Container Platform. The first result of this collaboration will be making the enterprise-ready features of NGINX Plus available with the Kubernetes Ingress controller and OpenShift Origin. We are also continuing to develop the Microservices Reference Architecture (MRA) for general release later this year. In advance of general release, we are using the MRA with NGINX Professional Services clients, deploying each of the three Models – the Proxy Model, the Router Mesh Model (blog post under development), and the Fabric Model – on a variety of platforms. One of our most interesting recent deployments has been to Red Hat’s OpenShift platform, an open source app development platform [ more… ]

Pandora FMS Integrates NGINX Plus Monitoring NGINX manages large amounts of simultaneous connections with great performance. It’s being used successfully by a number of large-scale businesses, including our customers here at Pandora FMS. So Pandora FMS has added NGINX Plus as an exciting new feature in the Pandora FMS Enterprise stable. The decision was clear: NGINX is used in large environments, Pandora FMS monitors large environments… We imagine you get the picture, but in case you don’t, see the figure below. Figure 1. Pandora FMS with integrated NGINX Plus Monitoring Bottom line, the team at Pandora has improved their existing plugin for open source NGINX to be compatible with NGINX Plus, allowing users to monitor a wide array of metrics from their advanced live activity feed. But, what does this imply? Pandora FMS strives to work in perfect synchronization with [ more… ]