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5 Ways Software Load Balancers Facilitate Modern Application Delivery In the past, achieving a stable, high‑performance application required specialized, proprietary hardware load balancers. These appliances sat in front of applications and web servers, and used policies and algorithms to distribute traffic in an optimized way to backend servers. However, as processor speeds continue to improve and as modern software architectures become the choice of many organizations undergoing digital transformation, software‑based load balancers can provide a good alternative to these specialized, on‑premises appliances. When leveraged correctly, software‑based load balancers are key to enabling DevOps, microservice application architectures, and cloud‑native, hybrid, and multi‑cloud deployments. Here are five reasons why we at Vizuri often implement software load balancers for our customers when modernizing their systems. Reason 1: Enhance Agility Hardware‑based load balancers are expensive, so most organizations use just one (or a few) [ more… ]

The State of API Gateways Microservices, as a concept, are almost synonymous with cloud‑native applications by their very nature – having small components, networked together and then distributed as loosely coupled services. APIs have been around for decades, so API gateways are not a new concept. But as part of the transition from monolithic to microservices‑based apps, the industry has largely moved from SOAP APIs with XML‑encoded payloads to REST APIs with JSON‑encoded payloads. Not only have the underlying technology and data formats changed, we’ve also changed the way we build APIs and the messaging and interaction style they use. Microservices and API Management A hugely distributed environment, with hundreds of APIs that are owned by individual developers, inherently creates challenges by virtue of its size and distributed nature. You may have multiple API gateways – one for each API, one for [ more… ]

NGINX Unit 1.13.0 and 1.14.0 Introduce Reverse Proxying and Address-Based Routing It’s been quite a while since our last post, and we’ve got major news to share about our latest NGINX Unit releases, namely 1.13.0 and 1.14.0. They introduce new features that add to our toolset and extend the range of scenarios where you can take advantage of NGINX Unit – reverse proxying in NGINX Unit 1.13.0 and address‑based routing in NGINX Unit 1.14.0. Let’s look at the two new features in detail. HTTP Reverse Proxying In a sense, the very name NGINX has come to mean reverse proxying. While this may not be necessarily warranted (NGINX Plus is much more than a one‑trick pony), what matters now is that the feature has come to NGINX Unit as well, becoming a family trait of sorts. NGINX Unit enables reverse proxying within its general routing framework: the new proxy [ more… ]