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An Update on Monitoring NGINX with Amplify It’s been four months since we launched the private beta of NGINX Amplify, so we wanted to provide a short update about the service. For those who aren’t yet familiar with NGINX Amplify, it is a SaaS tool we created to natively monitor NGINX. Amplify also analyzes your NGINX configuration, and provides useful recommendations based on our years of collective experience with tuning, optimizing, and operating NGINX-powered sites. We started NGINX Amplify with a team of just two developers. This small team put enormous effort into the early product which later became the foundation for the NGINX Amplify private beta program. A lot has happened since we launched the beta. See how many of your customers are using HTTP/2 We have many enthusiastic users running the new service and providing their feedback and [ more… ]

Scalable Live Video Streaming with NGINX Plus and BITMOVIN [Editor: This is a guest post by Christopher Mueller of BITMOVIN.] There’s nothing more frustrating than being in the middle of watching a live speech when it gets stuck. Even if it’s for only a few seconds, the experience has been severely degraded. Users have no tolerance for video that skips, glitches, or doesn’t play back flawlessly every time. NGINX Plus and BITMOVIN work together to deliver a powerful solution for scaling and delivering live video streaming and on-demand media to your users on any device, anywhere. BITMOVIN provides an intuitive video player that when combined with the famous performance and reliability of the NGINX Plus can stream high-quality video to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. (Both NGINX and NGINX Plus support the features we’re discussing, but for ease of reading we refer [ more… ]

Dynamic Modules Development The following is adapted from a presentation given by Ruslan Ermilov at nginx.conf 2015, held in San Francisco in September. You can view the video of the talk on YouTube. Table of Contents 0:00 Introduction 2:39 Module Growth 3:22 Core Modules 4:30 Event Modules 4:58 HTTP, Stream and Mail Modules 5:47 More Modules 7:11 Static Modules 8:05 Fears and Excuses 9:57 The Demand for Dynamic Loading 11:12 Benefits of Dynamic Loading 12:12 Working Prototype 12:45 Building Dynamic Modules 13:15 Building Dynamic Modules – Example 14:04 Building Third Party Modules Dynamically 14:22 Loading Modules 15:36 Gory Details 17:29 More Gory Details 19:44 For Module Developers 21:05 Who is Involved 22:50 Questions and Answers 0:00 Introduction My name is Ruslan, but I don’t mind if you call me Ruslam. I’m a developer for NGINX. I’ve been with the company [ more… ]

Sqor Sports Chooses NGINX Plus to Scale to Over 100 Million Fans Achieving High-Performance with an All-in-One Content Caching and Load Balancing Solution   Situation Sqor Sports was founded with a vision of offering direct communication between athletes and fans. The company offers a sports-centric social media platform, making it easy for athletes to post updates, videos, and images; and for fans to have more information, more conversation, and more personal interaction with their favorite athletes. Sqor Sport’s application is available on Android, iPhone, mobile web, and desktop browsers. Sqor Sports is growing rapidly. Increased adoption and growing popularity means Sqor Sports is succeeding, but as the user base is approaching one million, the application and underlying architecture have started to experience pressure from the increased traffic. Performance issues started to occur weekly. For example, viral posts and sudden spikes [ more… ]