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From Monolith to Microservices: A Basic Guide to Breaking Silos with NGINX Monolithic applications are the backbone of most large organizations. While they drive stable streams of revenue that are critical to keeping businesses running, they are often tied to complex processes and platforms for development, release management, and project management. As a result, these blocks of monolithic system functionality – or silos – represent one of the biggest pain points facing enterprises today. In this post, we share expert advice from Carlos Ponce, former Product Owner at ThermoFisher, on the benefits of breaking away from monolithic applications and the basic steps for transitioning towards microservices with NGINX. Enterprise Monoliths Impede Modern Development As development teams struggle to keep pace with new technology and consumer expectations, monolithic systems have become barriers to innovation and generation of new revenues. “Traditional organizations tend to maintain [ more… ]

Rising Open Source Software Vulnerabilities Require a Modern WAF Today, security has become a crucial part of the development, deployment, and delivery of web applications. We deliver our applications with an ever-increasing velocity that allows us to stay competitive. In a constant process of transformation, we adopt new technologies and methodologies in order to stay agile – often including the latest and greatest open source tooling, components, and application stacks. This velocity enables us to provide what our customers want and need from our applications, but what are the risks of such fast-paced innovation? The Rise of Open Source Vulnerabilities RiskSense, a vulnerability management firm based in Silicon Valley, recently published a study titled “The Dark Reality of Open Source”. The goal was to identify the threats to application security that come from open source products. Alarmingly, the number of [ more… ]

3 Tips for a CEO Going Through an Acquisition NGINX recently celebrated the one‑year anniversary of its acquisition by F5. I’ve been part of or witnessed quite a few acquisitions in my career, and I can honestly say this has been the best. Sure, there are always some bumps and lumps as you integrate two distinct groups of employees, several physical locations, and hundreds of systems and processes. But we never lost focus on the customer, the market opportunity, and the advantages each company brought to the table. I commend F5’s CEO, François Locoh-Donou, for his vision and stewardship throughout the process. And as with any anniversary, it’s a great time to reflect. On this anniversary I found myself asking two questions. If we could do it all over again, would we? And what would be my advice for entrepreneurs [ more… ]