In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Grant Hulegaard of NGINX dives deep into NGINX configuration: examining its structure, using crossplane to generate a JSON representation, and describing how NGINX Controller checks for common configuration errors and "gotchas".
An In-Depth Look at the Dropbox EDGE Network
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Oleg Guba of Dropbox describes the internal architecture of the company's EDGE network, including data centers, PoPs, and traffic patterns. He covers traffic management approaches in detail for ingress, internal, and egress flows.
NGINX for Commercial-Quality Streaming Services
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Seungyeob Choi of Verizon describes how he uses NGINX Plus for video streaming. He explains how to encrypt HLS, handle non-standard MP4 files published by customers, deliver high-bitrate content (UHD videos), and do live low-latency streaming.
NGINX JavaScript in Your Web Server Configuration
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Dmitry Volyntsev of NGINX, Inc. covers the NGINX JavaScript module (njs, formerly called nginScript) in depth, describes how users of NGINX and NGINXÂ Plus are using the NGINX JavaScript module to solve real solve real-world problems.
Performance-Tuning NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Amir Rawdat of NGINX, Inc. explains how to maximize NGINX performance with parameter tuning and other techniques. He also covers important aspects of performance tuning in an infrastructure.
Why Make Your Own NGINX Modules? Theory and Practice
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Vasiliy Soshnikov of Mail.Ru Group provides the detailed knowledge you need to build your own NGINX modules: details about NGINX's core, its modular architecture, and guiding principles for NGINX code development.
NGINX Powers 12 Billion Transactions per Day at Capital One
In their session at NGINX Conf 2018, Rohit Joshi and Mike Dunn explain how Capital One uses NGINX for its highest throughput, lowest latency applications, which handle 12 billion operations/day with peaks of 2 million ops/second at latencies of 10-30 milliseconds.
NGINX Unit Update
In their keynote at NGINX Conf 2018, Nick Shadrin and Igor Sysoev review the latest news on NGINX Unit, the open source, dynamically configured web and application server. Its supports an ever-growing number of languages, including Go, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
NGINX Plus, Kubernetes, and Prometheus – Gain Insights into Your Ingress Controller
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Brian Gautreau, Technical Solutions Architect at NGINX, Inc., shows how to monitor and display traffic flow and microservices health in a Kubernetes environment with the NGINX Plus API, the NGINX Prometheus Exporter, and Grafana.
NGINX in a Managed Hosting Environment
In their session at NGINX Conf 2018, Dimitri Henning and Roland Gutsch, Systems Engineers at SysEleven GmbH, describe how SysEleven uses NGINX in almost every setup in its virtual environment, and how they handle the challenges presented by a managed hosting environment.