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The following is adapted from a talk given by NGINX CEO Gus Robertson at nginx.conf 2015, held in San Francisco in September. Watch a video of the talk here. Table of Contents 0:00 Introduction 1:04 NGINX – Powering the World’s Busiest Websites 2:10 Where We’re Heading 4:36 Extraordinary Things 6:00 Changing the World 8:22 Flawless Application Delivery 0:00 Introduction Welcome to the second annual NGINX User Conference. My name is Gus Robertson. I’m the CEO of NGINX and I’ve been in open source now for well over a decade. I’ve been with NGINX for around three years, and I’ve seen some amazing milestones in those three years that I wanted to share with you this morning. 1:04 NGINX – Powering the World’s Busiest Websites Back in 2013, we became the number one web server for the 1,000 busiest websites in [ more… ]

Getting identity management right in modern application and API development is an increasingly important and demanding challenge. A number of developments in the industry are putting pressure on existing identity solutions. Integrated web experiences enable users to navigate seamlessly between different applications without requiring multiple login events. User experience is improved by giving users a choice about which identity they use with a given application, instead of requiring yet another password in yet another isolated, proprietary database. Microservices architectures (and decomposed monoliths) can require developers to reimplement the same authentication and authorization logic over and over. Applications deployed at scale (in a cluster) need to offload as many non-core operations as possible, for example encryption and authentication. Supporting the numerous existing identity standards involves undifferentiated heavy lifting that impinges on time spent on the application itself. At NGINX we are [ more… ]

The following is adapted from a talk given by Valentin V. Bartenev at nginx.conf 2015, held in San Francisco in September. You can view the video presentation here. For more about HTTP/2, see our blog post, 7 Tips to Improve HTTP/2 Performance. Table of Contents What is HTTP/2 and when should we use it? This post gives a brief overview of key characeristics and benefits of this new protocol. It also explains when and how to use the HTTP/2 module in NGINX for the best performance benefit. 0:20 Overview of the Protocol 1:40 Key Features of HTTP/2 3:08 HTTP/2 Inside: Binary 4:26 HTTP/2 Inside: Multiplexing 7:09 Key Features of HTTP/2 – Header Compression 8:40 Key Features of HTTP/2 – Prioritization 10:06 History 10:16 Test Page 10:52 Test Environment 11:02 DOM Load 11:48 First Painting 12:45 Configuration 14:20 Questions and Answers [ more… ]

NGINX, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of NGINX Plus Release 8 (R8), the latest release of our application delivery platform. Prominent among the features in NGINX Plus R8 is the OAuth Technology Preview, an implementation of OAuth-based authentication. OAuth 2.0 is the industry standard for authentication and authorization. It can be used to add Single Sign On (SSO) to your applications as well as control access to your APIs. In addition, this release includes a fully production-ready and hardened implementation of HTTP/2, a persistent on-the-fly reconfiguration API, scalable caching for large video files, and many more features to ensure flawless application delivery. The key new features in NGINX Plus R8 are: OAuth Technology Preview – OAuth 2.0 has become the industry standard for managing user identity on the Internet. When you use your Facebook or Google account to log in [ more… ]