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7 Key Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2017 NGINX has a long history with AWS. NGINX is used in more than half of the web apps built in AWS (download PDF here), including many of the biggest. This, by itself, is a huge vote of confidence in NGINX. So the NGINX booth at AWS re:Invent 2017 last week was a fun place to be. As we announced from the show, NGINX achieved AWS Networking Competency status, and was recognized as an Advanced Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN). AWS requires considerable integration work, and a strong track record, so it’s a great honor to be on the list. This endorsement of NGINX, one of only two load balancing vendors to make the list, is testament to the traction we’ve achieved in helping customers modernize apps and migrate to the cloud. [ more… ]

nginMesh: NGINX as a Proxy in an Istio Service Mesh td { padding-right: 10px; } This post is adapted from a presentation at nginx.conf 2017 by A.J. Hunyady, Senior Director of Product Management at NGINX, Inc. You can view the complete presentation, Deploying NGINX Proxy in an Istio Service Mesh, on YouTube. Also see the press release announcing nginMesh and Ed Robinson’s conference talk on NGINX open source projects. td { padding-right: 10px; } Table of Contents 0:54 Agenda 1:32 Modern Apps 4:29 Cloud-Native Apps 7:52 The Services Mesh 9:37 What is Istio? 12:20 Istio with NGINX 14:25 Demo of Istio and NGINX in action 31:48 nginMesh Roadmap 34:00 Q&A Good afternoon, everyone. My name is A.J. Hunyady. I’m going to give a talk on NGINX proxy used within Istio service mesh. I’m the product owner and I’ll be joined [ more… ]

Troubleshooting Application Performance and Slow TCP Connections with NGINX Amplify I’m going to share an example of using NGINX Amplify as a visualization and reporting tool for benchmarking application performance. The primary focus is going to be measuring the performance of a keepalive connection technique. As you’ll see at the conclusion, we found that we can double performance in a realistic testing scenario by using TCP keepalive. Using the NGINX upstream keepalive mechanism reduces connection overhead, by reducing the number of TCP/IP packet round trips, and also gives more consistent response time. Using NGINX Amplify, we’re able to easily visualize the interaction, identify bottlenecks, and troubleshoot excessive TCP connect time, improving application performance. Introduction Keepalive connections can significantly boost performance, but only if they’re reused extensively, sharply reducing the need to create new connections, which are computationally expensive to set [ more… ]