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NGINX Announces New Versions of Open Source, Commercial, and Partner Solutions, Helping Businesses Evolve Apps for the Digital Era

2019-09-11 KENNETH 0

NGINX Announces New Versions of Open Source, Commercial, and Partner Solutions, Helping Businesses Evolve Apps for the Digital Era Today, at our annual NGINX Conf user event, we’re announcing exciting new NGINX open source and commercial solutions. They represent our most significant update to the NGINX Application Platform since last year’s NGINX Conf. This year’s updates are different, though – not only because of specific new features and functions, but because we’re now supported by the breadth and depth of F5. Collectively, these updates represent a bold extension to our vision. But first, let’s explain why these updates are needed in today’s fast‑paced, digital era. Three Waves of Digital Transformation Organizations are at a digital tipping point. The pressure to grow revenues, compete on a global scale, and keep costs in check requires a digital‑first approach. But the evolution to a digital business [ more… ]

Cost-Optimize Your Next NGINX Plus Deployment with Amazon EC2 A1 Instances

2019-09-05 KENNETH 0

Cost-Optimize Your Next NGINX Plus Deployment with Amazon EC2 A1 Instances As an NGINX user, you are probably familiar with Arm as an IP provider for smartphones, but you might not know that Arm also delivers solutions for a range of infrastructures, from cloud to edge. Arm has been investing in an infrastructure‑focused roadmap for a number of years and recently launched the Arm Neoverse brand specifically to deliver cloud to edge architectures, products, and solutions. The Arm Neoverse architecture is well‑suited for scale‑out, cloud‑native workloads like NGINX and NGINX Plus. Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced the Amazon EC2 A1 instance, based on the Arm Neoverse platform, at AWS re:Invent 2018. These instances use the AWS Nitro System and are the first instances powered by the AWS Graviton Processor, which features 64‑bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS. [ more… ]

Announcing NGINX Plus R19

2019-09-03 KENNETH 0

Announcing NGINX Plus R19 We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 19 (R19) 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. A primary focus of the release is monitoring, with new capabilities that make it more granular and flexible, for enhanced reliability of your applications at scale. New features in NGINX Plus R19 include: More flexible monitoring – We’ve added new capabilities for finer‑grained insight and easier analysis of your NGINX Plus ecosystem, including optional separate metrics collection for location blocks, new metrics about DNS lookup activity, and support for export in Prometheus format as well as JSON. The NGINX Plus dashboard displays the new per‑location metrics and has new tabs for the DNS metrics and metrics about [ more… ]

NGINX vs. Avi: Performance in the Cloud

2019-08-27 KENNETH 0

NGINX vs. Avi: Performance in the Cloud table.nginx-blog, table.nginx-blog th, table.nginx-blog td { border: 2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } table.nginx-blog { width: 100%; } table.nginx-blog th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td { padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td.center { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } Slow is the new down – according to Pingdom, the bounce rate for a website that takes 5 seconds to load is close to 40%. So what does that mean? If your site takes that long to load, nearly half of your visitors abandon it and go elsewhere. Users are constantly expecting faster applications and better digital experiences, so improving your performance is crucial to growing your business. The last thing you [ more… ]

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Transitioning to DevOps: Advice from an NGINX Expert

2019-08-21 KENNETH 0

Transitioning to DevOps: Advice from an NGINX Expert Enterprises across the world today are becoming increasingly interested in leveraging DevOps to deliver applications and services at a fast pace. However, at most organizations, awareness of DevOps has remained confined to abstract principles rather than practical knowledge. There is a strong misunderstanding about the purpose of DevOps, and as a result many companies are far less confident in implementing agile operations on the ground. In this post we share advice from Kevin Jones, a Global Solutions Architect at NGINX and an expert on managing DevOps environments, on successfully transitioning to DevOps. Setting the Goals “What are we trying to achieve? Is it to modernize our applications? To transform our infrastructure to achieve agile development?” Those are the questions for organizations to ask about any transition towards DevOps, according to Kevin, who stresses [ more… ]