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Rewind 2019: Highlights from the NGINX Blog 2019 has been a truly fascinating and exciting year for NGINX, our customers, our partners, and our community. As we prepare to take a break from our hard work over the holiday season, here is a look back on some of our top moments from the last 12 months, as voted for by our readers. NGINX Becomes Part of F5 Unsurprising to those who are already aware by now, the news that F5 Networks acquired NGINX was a massive moment for us this year, heralding a new era for both parties as well as their respective customers and communities. NGINX’s Gus Robertson published a blog post to confirm our commitment to existing open-source projects and commercial products, as well as plans to accelerate the development of NGINX Controller. Robinson also wrote that he [ more… ]

Real-Time APIs: Trends and Adoption In our previous blog, How Real‑Time APIs Power Our Lives, we showed how APIs, while largely unknown to the average consumer, have become an integral part of our daily lives online. From a business perspective, APIs play a pivotal role in digital transformation, which industry analyst IDC believes companies must achieve soon if they hope simply to survive, let alone compete, in today’s rapidly changing business landscape. Despite the importance of digital transformation, IDC notes in its recent survey, APIs – The Determining Agents Between Success or Failure of Digital Business, that a full 25% of companies haven’t committed to completing their digital transformation within the next decade. Modernization for the Many, Not the Few APIs are not relevant only to technology companies, either. According to the IDC survey, the majority of companies in many verticals already [ more… ]

Announcing NGINX Plus R20 We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 20 (R20) is now available. NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, and API gateway. Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus includes exclusive enhanced features and award‑winning support. NGINX Plus R20 builds on the enhancements we made to rate limiting and the key‑value store in R19. New features include: Real‑time monitoring and logging of rate‑limited traffic – When rate limiting is configured, the NGINX Plus API now reports how many requests are passed immediately, delayed, or rejected. You can also configure the access log to include information about the rate‑limited status of individual requests. Enhancements to connection limiting – The enhancements to rate limiting introduced the R19 and this release have been extended to connection limiting. Prefix matching in the key‑value store – Keys in the key‑value [ more… ]

Using NGINX as a DoT or DoH Gateway There’s a lot of talk surrounding the Domain Name System (DNS) at the moment, with massive changes being proposed for the 36-year-old protocol. The Internet’s name service, which has its origins in ARPANET, has never had any backward compatible breakages since its inception. But new proposals to change the DNS transport mechanism may be about to change that. In this post I look at two emerging technologies for securing DNS, DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and show how to implement them using NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus. The History of DNS DNS was the second attempt at creating a naming service for the Advanced Research Project Agency’s (ARPA) early Internet, the first being the Internet Name Server protocol published by John Postel in 1979 as IEN-116. DNS was designed [ more… ]