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Find and Fix API Endpoint Issues with Akita’s NGINX Plus Certified Module If you’re responsible for a production service with any number of users, you likely understand the pain of customers finding issues before you do. At Akita, we want to solve this problem – which is why we built our new NGINX Plus Certified Module. In this blog, we’ll cover key aspects of the module, including the reason to zoom out from logs, ways to quickly find and fix issues across your system, and how the new Akita modulemakes this functionality easily available to NGINX users. Zooming Out From Logs to API Endpoints Today, countless developers find themselves in an unfortunate situation where their customers have effectively become their monitoring system. It’s not that software teams aren’t logging errors. For instance, if you use NGINX as your reverse proxy, [ more… ]

The Mission-Critical Patient-Care Use Case That Became a Kubernetes Odyssey Downtime can lead to serious consequences. These words are truer for companies in the medical technology field than in most other industries – in their case, the "serious consequences" can literally include death. We recently had the chance to dissect the tech stack of a company that’s seeking to transform medical record keeping from pen-and-paper to secure digital data that is accessible anytime, and anywhere, in the world. These data range from patient information to care directives, biological markers, medical analytics, historical records, and everything else shared between healthcare teams. From the outset, the company has sought to address a seemingly simple question: “How can we help care workers easily record data in real time?” As the company has grown, however, the need to scale and make data constantly available [ more… ]

Secure Your GraphQL and gRPC Bidirectional Streaming APIs with F5 NGINX App Protect WAF The digital economy continues to expand since the COVID-19 pandemic, with 90% of organizations growing their modern app architectures. In F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy Report, more than 40% of the 1,000 global IT decision makers surveyed describe their app portfolios as "modern". This percentage has been growing steadily over the last few years and is projected to exceed 50% by 2025. However, the increase in modern apps and use of microservices is accompanied by a proliferation of APIs and API endpoints, exponentially increasing the potential for vulnerabilities and the surface area for attacks. According to Continuous API Sprawl, a report from the F5 Office of the CTO, there were approximately 200 million APIs worldwide in 2021, a number expected to approach 2 billion by [ more… ]

A Primer on QUIC Networking and Encryption in NGINX table.nginx-blog, table.nginx-blog th, table.nginx-blog td { border: 2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } table.nginx-blog { width: 100%; } table.nginx-blog th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td { padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td.center { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } The first mention of QUIC and HTTP/3 on the NGINX blog was four years ago (!), and like you we’re now eagerly looking forward to the imminent merging of our QUIC implementation into the NGINX Open Source mainline branch. Given the long gestation, it’s understandable if you haven’t QUIC much thought. At this point, however, as a developer or site administrator you need to be aware of how QUIC [ more… ]