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Submit a Talk and Register Now for nginx.conf 2016! We’re excited to announce that registration and the Call for Proposals are now open for nginx.conf 2016. We’re looking forward to seeing you in Austin, TX this September 7-9. Register now to save $400! Early bird pricing is available until May 19. Share your story about how you’re using NGINX and NGINX Plus to help you achieve performance, security, and scale for your web applications. Whether you’re deploying your app in the cloud, on bare metal, or a combination, we want to hear how you’re using NGINX across any type of application and in any sort of environment. We’d love to see talks on any of the topics below: Architecting, Developing, & Deploying Code Scaling and Securing Applications NGINX-specific and NGINX Plus-Specific Case Studies & Best Practices Submit your ideas to [ more… ]

Introducing Full Emoji Support in NGINX and NGINX Plus Configuration ? Here at NGINX we strive to support the latest technologies, development best practices, and DevOps principles. It is well known that the use of emoji has grown significantly in the last several years. Most Internet users utilize them in place of standard emoticons and many individuals can now have full, meaningful conversations without using any conventional ASCII letters. NGINX has become the most appealing web server for the latest generation of developers, and the recent announcement of support for JavaScript in NGINX configuration files has increased our usage among these young, up-and-coming technologists. To increase our appeal to the younger generation of DevOps and web developers, we are introducing full support for emoji in NGINX configuration files. You can now use emoji in the comments, variable values, regular expressions, [ more… ]

Get Started with Infrastructure as Code with this Free O’Reilly Ebook Application development has undergone drastic changes in the past few years, driven by the demand for ever-increasing performance, scale, and resiliency. Single-server and multi-server deployment models that require manual configuration and endless hours of routine drudgery are frowned upon. Today, applications are increasingly deployed on clusters of dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of containers and virtual machines. This shift requires enormous cooperation between development, operations, and traditional IT management teams. This new cooperative approach to infrastructure management led to the creation of “Infrastructure as Code” – an approach where servers, networks, firewalls, and services are abstracted to software and data. Infrastructure-as-code methodology utilizes software development best practices, such as version control systems and automated testing libraries, to build simple, easy, and repeatable, human-readable infrastructure configurations. Thanks to these tools, [ more… ]