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Securing Microservices and APIs with NGINX and Signal Sciences When you break apart the monolith to move to microservices architectures, you have to secure the components A shift is happening in the industry. Monolithic web applications are being decomposed into microservices. By breaking up applications into small, decoupled services, developers are able to independently change components of their application. This architectural approach can have a ripple effect that drastically shrinks the total time to deliver changes and simultaneously reduces risk. Generally, the move to microservices is paired with the cultural shift to Agile and DevOps. These cultural movements have filtered through many organizations, breaking down silos that once impaired delivery. Microservices pulls apart once-dependent systems and allows teams to move faster in all stages, from development to runtime operations. The move to microservices impacts development, performance, monitoring and — as [ more… ]

Announcing General Availability of NGINX Amplify Have you been using NGINX, but still don’t have real insights into its performance? Ever wonder whether a configuration snippet copied from somewhere is a valid one? Did you ever have issues with SSL configuration in NGINX? Do you want to make NGINX run even better? Or maybe you’ve just been looking around for the simplest and quickest way to set up cloud monitoring for your LEMP stack? (Where the “E” in “LEMP” stems from “eNGINe‑X” ?) A little over a year ago, we announced the public beta of NGINX Amplify – our own specialized, free monitoring tool for NGINX and NGINX Plus. Today, we’re super excited to be removing the beta status for Amplify – it’s now generally available (GA) for NGINX and NGINX Plus users. Amplify is production‑ready, supported, and has a free‑tier monitoring plan. Existing [ more… ]

Introducing the NGINX Application Platform We live in one of the most exciting times in history. The amount of technological innovation that has happened over the past few years is remarkable. For anyone looking to start their own business, the barriers to entry have never been lower. Existing organizations are more empowered than ever before to offer their services to a broad audience. At the core of this innovation is open source software. People, freely sharing ideas and code, have led us to where we are now. I’ve been fortunate to be involved in the open source world for many years. Open source has accomplished a great deal, but the best is definitely yet to come. Today I’m excited to announce the NGINX Application Platform. A suite of four products, built on open source technology, that together, I believe, will [ more… ]

Responsive Web Design with WURFL and NGINX Plus Responsive Web Design (RWD) has been around for some time, making it through the “hype cycle” and finding its way to the “plateau of productivity”. With responsive web design, web developers now possess frameworks and guidelines on how to make their design adjust dynamically to the browser window and, to some extent, to the form factor of users’ devices. However, all that glitters is not gold. Handling images in RWD has emerged as the major issue to address when website performance matters. In the case of classic one-size-fits-all image content, web developers are left with presenting a high-resolution image to serve desktop, tablet, and smartphone users. If you add to this the fact that those users may be accessing a site through a flaky mobile connection, you can imagine that this approach [ more… ]