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Introducing Custom Dashboards in NGINX Amplify We are very excited to announce the addition of custom dashboards to NGINX Amplify, our SaaS-based tool for monitoring and managing NGINX. Now you can create your own dashboards populated with highly customizable graphs of NGINX and system-level metrics. As you can see, not only can the metrics be summed (or averaged across several NGINX servers), but it is also possible to create additional “metric dimensions”, for example, reporting the number of POST requests for a specific URI. NGINX Amplify is currently in private beta. We want to thank everyone who provided their feedback and various suggestions. Everything you’ve told us so far has been incredibly helpful. If you haven’t yet, sign up for the private beta today. Now, let’s dig deeper into the custom dashboards. Using Custom Dashboards In NGINX Amplify With this new feature, you [ more… ]

Microservices Reference Architecture, Part 2 – The Proxy Model The NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture is under development. It will be made publically available later this year, and will be discussed in detail at nginx.conf 2016, September 7–9 in Austin, TX. Early bird discounts are available now. Author’s note – This blog post is the second in a series; we will extend this list as new posts appear: Introducing the NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture Microservices Reference Architecture, Part 2 – The Proxy Model (this post) Upcoming posts will cover the other two models included in the Microservices Reference Architecture (MRA) and related topics. I’ve written a separate article about web frontends for microservices applications. We also have a very useful and popular series about microservices application design, plus other microservices blog posts and microservices webinars. Introducing the Proxy Model As the name implies, the Proxy Model places NGINX Plus as a reverse proxy server [ more… ]

Connecting Your Apps with Docker and NGINX, Part II: Immutable Infrastructure This post is adapted from a webinar hosted on April 7th, 2016 by Floyd Smith and Michael Hausenblas. This blog post is the second of two parts, and is focused on immutable infrastructure. The first part, focused on microservices is here. You can watch a recording of the webinar here. This part of the webinar focuses on immutable infrastructure, which is defined in an in-depth article as follows: “once you instantiate something, you never change it. Instead, you replace it with another instance to make changes or ensure proper behavior.” Table of Contents 19:21 Immutable Infrastructure 20:17 Why Immutability? 21:43 Container Lifecycle 23:18 Tooling 25:16 Tooling Continued 28:18 p24e.io 28:56 O’Reilly Book 29:19 Resources 35:00 Questions and Answers 19:21 Immutable Infrastructure Michael: Let’s take a look at the concept [ more… ]

3BetGaming Serves More Customers and Saves 75% Bandwidth with NGINX Plus   Situation 3BetGaming is a software provider for online sports betting companies. Whether before a match or in the middle of the game, 3BetGaming’s backend infrastructure powers the bidding behind thousands of games every day. The company offers the most extensive sports book application on the market, and supports nearly 12,000 active players, 14,000 live monthly events, and 100 million bets so far. 3BetGaming is based in Malta and has clients around the world – from growing startups to massive corporations. 3BetGaming consistently provides flexible and powerful software for its diverse range of clients. As its customer base grew, 3BetGaming faced a problem with its existing virtual load balancing appliances. The growth in traffic was bringing 3BetGaming close to exceeding the bandwidth limit imposed by its existing license. In [ more… ]