How to Manage Sudden Traffic Surges and Server Overload

2021-07-15 KENNETH 0

How to Manage Sudden Traffic Surges and Server Overload For many retailers, the COVID‑19 pandemic changed where and how their customers shop for the holidays. Locked out of brick-and-mortar stores, shoppers flocked to online retailers more than ever before, spiking e‑commerce sales to $189 billion in 2020, a 33% increase over 2019. With fewer than six months standing between retailers and this year’s holiday shoppers, we’re revealing several ways you can leverage NGINX and prepare for sudden traffic spikes. Step 1: Know Where You Stand Against Your Competition Before making changes to your stack, it helps to know just how much you need to maximize your “Cyber Season” performance to thrive instead of just survive. Start by collecting data about the performance of competing websites. Time to load a page is probably the most important metric – many of today’s impatient users abandon a [ more… ]

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NGINX Is Available in AWS Marketplace for Containers

2021-07-14 KENNETH 0

NGINX Is Available in AWS Marketplace for Containers We’re excited to announce that you can now purchase the NGINX Plus-based version of NGINX Ingress Controller, with and without NGINX App Protect, directly from AWS Marketplace for Containers. With this addition to the marketplace, we continue to strengthen our partnership with AWS, enabling you to deliver high‑performance, cloud‑native apps with ease. NGINX offers two options for making your Kubernetes deployment production‑grade: Option 1: NGINX Ingress Controller – The first step towards making Kubernetes production‑grade is the addition of an Ingress controller that increases resiliency, enable rapid scalability, and support self‑service. Try free for 30 days. Option 2: NGINX Ingress Controller with NGINX App Protect – As your Kubernetes apps mature, you’ll need to enhance security to reduce the risk of breaches and single points of failure. The deployment of a flexible web application firewall [ more… ]

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Our Roadmap for QUIC and HTTP/3 Support in NGINX

2021-07-13 KENNETH 0

Our Roadmap for QUIC and HTTP/3 Support in NGINX The Internet refuses to stand still. Even before the standardization of HTTP/2 in 2015, work had already begun on QUIC and what would later become HTTP/3. Now, five years since the first draft specification for QUIC was submitted to the IETF, we have RFC 9000, QUIC: A UDP‑Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport. Of course, it’s not quite that simple. At the time of writing, a total of four RFCs have been published that describe the core QUIC transport and encryption layer. A further eleven related specifications remain in draft, including the final definition of HTTP/3. However, many client and server implementations are already in widespread use. In fact, 20% of all websites already support HTTP/3 thanks to the efforts of CDN providers and tech giants who have been keeping pace with the draft standards. [ more… ]

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Save the Date for NGINX Sprint: August 23-25, 2021

2021-07-07 KENNETH 0

Save the Date for NGINX Sprint: August 23-25, 2021 We know you’ve been patiently waiting since we closed out our first-ever NGINX Sprint virtual event last September. Today, we’re happy to announce we have lift-off; this year’s NGINX Sprint will be taking place from August 23-25, 2021. Save your seat now! NGINX Sprint is a three-day virtual event that includes keynotes, interactive demos, workshops, and in-depth training. Better still, it’s completely free. Join us to learn about the latest NGINX news, dive deep into NGINX technologies and solutions, and most importantly, get the opportunity to engage and connect with the rest of our incredible NGINX community. Modern Apps Are Fueling the Future 2020, and the challenges it brought, proved that application modernization is more critical than ever. We witnessed an incredible shift as people, businesses, and organizations around the world [ more… ]

Defending Applications from Complex and Modern Attacks

2021-07-06 KENNETH 0

Defending Applications from Complex and Modern Attacks Your friend Jon is shopping on his favorite e‑commerce site. One day, the site is slow and unresponsive. Over the next week, each time Jon wants to search for a product, the site remains sluggish. He wonders, “Does this site want my money or not?” Eventually, he decides to stop using the site because it’s become unreliable, and goes to a competitor to make his purchase. Jon is an unusually patient shopper. Research reveals that a full third of U.S. consumers say they will abandon a brand after a single negative experience, and the percentage is even higher is other parts of the world. Beneath the surface, a likely cause for Jon’s poor user experience is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. In a DoS attack, a bad actor bombards a site or application with [ more… ]