Help the World by Healing Your NGINX Configuration

2020-04-22 KENNETH 0

Help the World by Healing Your NGINX Configuration In his famous speech at the University of Texas in 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven said that if you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. Sometimes small things can have a big impact – whether it’s making your bed in the morning or making few changes to your website’s HTTP server configuration. Does that seem like an overstatement? The first months of 2020 have flushed down the drain all definitions of what’s normal and reasonable in our world. With almost half of the Earth’s population locked down in their homes due to the COVID‑19 pandemic, the Internet has become their only mode of communication, entertainment, buying food, working, and education. And each week the Internet is seeing higher network traffic and server load than ever before. According to a report [ more… ]

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Enabling Video Streaming for Remote Learning with NGINX and NGINX Plus

2020-04-17 KENNETH 0

Enabling Video Streaming for Remote Learning with NGINX and NGINX Plus I was thrilled when F5 announced the purchase of NGINX a year ago, because as a longtime F5er, I knew NGINX was a perfect fit. That feeling was confirmed when, in one of our first joint meetings, NGINX employees discussed something deeply important to me: their commitment to the “community”. Since joining the NGINX team as a product manager, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing that commitment in action and gotten to work more deeply with the community. The NGINX Community Is Coming Together During the COVID-19 Pandemic Those of us working with open source typically use “community” to describe people who support an open source project by submitting code. While important, they are only a small part of the NGINX community. Who, then, are the other members of [ more… ]

The Value of Red Hat + NGINX

2020-04-15 KENNETH 0

The Value of Red Hat + NGINX At NGINX (now a part of F5), we’re seeing a shift in what customers expect from their technology providers. We see code as the literal and figurative connective tissue that builds communities, drives innovation, and tells stories. It only makes sense for us to invest in a relationship with another open‑source–loving company known across the globe: Red Hat. NGINX is making one of its deepest investments in optimizing for the Red Hat platforms. We want to reduce friction for our customers by enabling seamless integration with some of the most popular Linux, automation, and container platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. What is the value to you of an enhanced relationship between Red Hat and NGINX? Secure, scalable, and supported application delivery – no matter where you are on the [ more… ]

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NGINX Unit 1.16.0 Introduces New Yet Familiar Features

2020-04-09 KENNETH 0

NGINX Unit 1.16.0 Introduces New Yet Familiar Features Like many of you, the NGINX Unit team has been hunkered down at home during the COVID‑19 pandemic. Nonetheless, we’ve been able to maintain our steady release cadence, introducing versions 1.15.0 and 1.16.0 in the past couple months. Let’s take a quick look at the new features we’ve added. Two of the features new with NGINX Unit 1.16.0 are familiar to fans of NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus: the fallback routing option is similar to the NGINX try_files directive, and the upstreams object introduces round‑robin load balancing of requests across a dedicated group of backend servers. The fallback Routing Option The first new feature enables you to define an alternative routing action for cases when a static file can’t be served for some reason. You can easily imagine ways to extend this logic beyond mere [ more… ]

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Announcing NGINX Plus R21

2020-04-07 KENNETH 0

Announcing NGINX Plus R21 We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 21 (R21) is now available. Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, and API gateway. With more than 450 million web sites relying on NGINX, NGINX Plus R21 is more reliable and more secure than ever before, primarily focusing on bug fixes and stability improvements from NGINX Open Source. New features of NGINX Plus R21 include: Dynamic gRPC proxying – We’ve added variable support when passing gRPC connections to backend gRPC services. This enables you to dynamically route gRPC connections to groups of services based on client attributes. NGINX JavaScript module enhancements – The NGINX JavaScript module (njs) has been updated to version 0.3.9, with several bug fixes and additional functional enhancements related to subrequests and filesystem support. Important Changes in Behavior [ more… ]