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This is the sixth article in a series about building applications with microservices. The first article introduces the Microservice Architecture pattern and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of using microservices. The following articles discuss different aspects of the microservice architecture: using an API Gateway, inter-process communication, service discovery, and event-driven data management. In this article, we look at strategies for deploying microservices. [Editor’s note — The other articles currently available in this seven-part series are: Introduction to Microservices Building Microservices: Using an API Gateway Building Microservices: Inter-Process Communication in a Microservices Architecture Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture Event-Driven Data Management for Microservices ] Motivations Deploying a monolithic application means running multiple, identical copies of a single, usually large application. You typically provision N servers (physical or virtual) and run M instances of the application on each one. The deployment of a monolithic application [ more… ]

This post is adapted from a webinar hosted on January 20th, 2016 by Floyd Smith and Faisal Memon. Watch a replay of the presentation here. Table of Contents 0:00 Introduction 2:30 Your Questions 5:45 What’s New in Drupal 8 7:33 Planning Your Site Architecure 11:13 Replacing Your Web Server 15:08 NGINX Configuration for Drupal 8 16:30 Change #1: Accomodating update.php 19:38 Change #2: Non-greedy Match 20:57 Change #3: Default Location 0:00 Introduction Floyd Smith: Thank you very much for joining us. Today we’re going to be talking about maximizing the performance of Drupal 8 using NGINX. Recently we did a blog post on this topic, and found quite a few people are using Drupal 8 and NGINX together. You can find a fair amount of information from us and other sources just by typing some words that look like this [ more… ]

Today we released open source NGINX version 1.9.11, with a new feature that we believe will have a huge impact on how you use NGINX and NGINX Plus: dynamic modules. With dynamic modules, you can optionally load separate shared object files at runtime as modules – both third-party modules and some native NGINX modules. The new implementation maintains backward compatibility with the module API as much as possible. The next NGINX Plus release (NGINX Plus R9) will build on this dynamic modules feature. We plan to establish a managed modules repository with a range of third-party modules that we have tested and certified against NGINX Plus, making it easier for you to add common extensions to NGINX Plus with confidence. If you would like to have your open source or commercial modules included in our repository, please reach out to us through the Contact Sales [ more… ]