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Is Your API Real Time? Test Its Latency and Responsiveness with the rtapi Tool from NGINX APIs lie at the very heart of modern applications and evolving digital architectures, with API calls representing 83% of all web traffic, according to the Akamai State of the Internet Security Report. In today’s landscape, where it’s so easy for consumers to switch to a digital competitor, it is of the utmost importance for them to have a positive experience with your site or app. Speed is highly valued, and is ultimately driven by responsive, healthy, and adaptable APIs. If you get this right – your API is faster than your competitor’s – developers will choose you. However, it’s a major challenge for most businesses to process API calls in as near to real time as possible. According to the IDC report APIs — The Determining Agents [ more… ]

#Life@NGINX: Meet Intern Lorcan McVeigh Lorcan McVeigh is pursuing his degree in Computer Science at University College Cork and did an internship with the NGINX Product Group at F5 from March through September 2019. Before he finished up at our Cork office, we sat down with Lorcan to find out what he learned from his time working at NGINX and what advice he’d give to others looking for a career in technology. What was your experience of NGINX? When I started, I was put on a project and that kept me busy – I needed to learn a new programming language and how to use the systems. Then I was put on the open source NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes project, which blew open a huge new avenue of learning. This project meant learning completely new technologies in depth – Kubernetes, Docker, and Git. It was [ more… ]

Just One POST: Enabling Declarative DNS with F5 and the NGINX JavaScript Module In the 1990 movie The Hunt for Red October, Sean Connery plays Marko Ramius, captain of the Soviet Union’s newest nuclear submarine, who intends to defect to the US and bring the sub with him. CIA analyst Jack Ryan, played by a young Alec Baldwin, intuits Ramius’s motive and has to convince the US Navy of his theory to prevent a violent confrontation between the superpowers. To prove his point, Ryan first needs to talk to Ramius, and suspense ratchets up as Ryan spends an inordinate amount of time trying to locate him. On the face of it, Ryan’s search is like that of a browser client trying to find a website on the Internet – except that websites register their locations in the Domain Name System (DNS), making [ more… ]

Redefining Client-Side Security with the Tala Security Certified Module for NGINX Plus Up to 70% of the code rendering on websites today comes not from servers at the site, but via JavaScript integrations that operate outside the site’s security controls. This architecture enriches customer experience and engagement but also introduces critical vulnerabilities that enable client‑side attacks like Magecart. To understand how we can fix this problem, let’s start with a look at how we got here. Fifteen years ago, when a user visited a website, all processing occurred on the server. The response sent to the client was mostly HTML code to be rendered, meaning the browser or client app was primarily a rendering engine. Fast‑forward a few years and two key developments have transformed the architecture of modern web applications. First, companies like Google developed cloud‑based applications like GSuite to [ more… ]

Why Should You Attend Agility This Year? Agility, F5’s leading event for multi‑cloud application services, takes place from March 16–19 this year in Orlando, Florida. Join us for a week full of labs, breakout sessions, certification testing, networking, and much more. Agility is a four‑day event that brings together 1600+ technologies from across the F5 community, including customers and partners. Sounds Interesting – Who’s Going to Agility? Agility is designed to empower a community of security, infrastructure, and cloud experts, as well as DevOps practitioners and architects, by inviting experts who provide the latest must‑have information about delivering the apps that make businesses succeed. Why Attend Agility? Our vast community of DevOps, SecOps, and NetOps customers will be coming together in Orlando to learn how to discuss the latest in application infrastructure, and learn from esteemed experts, at Agility. At this event [ more… ]