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Introducing NGINX API Management: Manage NGINX Plus API Gateways with NGINX Controller Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become central to the digital economy. Forbes dubbed 2017 the year of the API economy. According to Programmable Web, the de facto journal of the API economy, APIs have witnessed explosive growth over the last five years. Since January 2014, an average of more than 2,000 public APIs have been added per year, and today there more than 19,000. APIs Drive Innovation, Unlock Data, and Modernize Applications What accounts for the dramatic growth in the use of APIs? APIs help drive innovation and accelerate time to market. They provide new opportunities to generate revenue and build partnerships with third‑party developers as well as your entire business ecosystem of suppliers, distributors, resellers, and even customers. Google Maps is an illustrative example. Many third‑party websites and applications embed a [ more… ]

Securing the Perimeter: Achieving Zero Trust with NGINX Plus and SSO/Rest The move to cloud computing means that more of our data, our operations, and our business are being repositioned to face the public Internet; sensitive assets are no longer necessarily tucked away in the corporate data center, accessible only to on‑site personnel. The new risks resulting from this paradigm shift are increasingly rendering existing access control models insufficient and are rapidly driving the security community to embrace the “Zero Trust” approach to security as the gold standard for resource protection. In a Zero Trust architecture, there is no longer a trusted network inside a corporate perimeter and an untrusted world outside. Instead, “microperimeters” are constructed around data and resources, allowing fine‑grained access control policies to be enforced at all locations. (For a detailed discussion of Zero Trust, see the [ more… ]

Not All Software Load Balancers Are Created Equal According to findings by InformationWeek and Interop ITX, 50% of organizations have implemented DevOps methodologies or plan to implement them soon. But DevOps methodologies require solutions that deliver the agility and flexibility required to rapidly achieve scale and high feature velocity. In a recent blog, NGINX CEO Gus Robertson described how load balancers are a critical component in DevOps tooling, but only if they’re the right kind: hardware‑based load balancers are in fact roadblocks to agile development. A software approach is mandatory. But not all software‑based load balancers are created equal. Broadly speaking, there are two varieties: Software appliances that run on virtual machines (VMs), such as F5’s BIG‑IP Virtual Edition (VE) or Citrix’s ADC (formerly NetScaler) Virtual Appliance. These are typically not binaries but are packaged as a full‑fledged VM or [ more… ]

Securing Applications in Microsoft Azure App Service with NGINX Plus 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%; } The rise of cloud computing – and Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Container as a Service (CaaS) offerings in particular – is changing the way companies deploy and operate their business applications. One of the most important challenges when designing cloud applications is choosing fully managed cloud services that reduce costs and time‑consuming operational tasks without compromising security. This blog post shows you how to host applications on Microsoft [ more… ]