NGINX recently became the most popular web server in the world, according to W3Techs. We're profoundly grateful to the NGINX community, who've brought us to this milestone, and look forward to providing even more tools to help you optimize delivery of your modern and cloud-native apps.
What Is a Container?
A container is a virtualization technology designed to create and support a portable form factor for applications. In other words, containers make it easy to deploy an application on a range of different platforms.
Updates to NGINX Unit for Autumn 2020
Since our last update, the NGINX Unit team has released three versions, 1.19.0 through 1.21.0. New features include support for ASGI with Python, multi-threading with several languages (Java, Perl, Python, Ruby), regular expressions in routing conditions, and more.
The State of Modern App Delivery 2020: Results from Our Annual User Survey
Accompanying an infographic of results from our 2020 NGINX user survey, we present key takeaways about the state of app delivery: the rising dominance of microservices and containers, the most popular associated technologies, and the challenges faced by app delivery professionals.
The State of Modern App Delivery 2020 in the NGINX Open Source Community
Check out this infographic for key takeaways from our NGINX user survey about the state of app delivery in 2020: the rising dominance of microservices and containers, the most popular associated technologies, and the challenges faced by app delivery professionals.
Congrats to the Winners of the NGINX for Good Hackathon
We present the four winners of the 2020 NGINX Hackathon for Good, who each created an app to help people affected by a social issue, using NGINX Open Source and NGINX Unit. The winning apps address unemployment, social justice volunteerism, and transparency around charitable giving.
Automating Installation of WordPress with NGINX Unit on Ubuntu
We walk through a bash script for setting up a WordPress deployment on Ubuntu that's managed by NGINX Unit and uses NGINX for web serving. The resulting WordPress deployment is scriptable, supports Let’s Encrypt, and has production-ready settings.
The Essence of Sprint is Speed
We explore three factors that hamper the speed of software development and delivery: dev teams are battling fatigue, tools aren't automated, and infrastructure is too complex. Find out how NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, NGINX App Protect, and NGINX Controller can help.
NGINX Unit: From Zero to Lift Off
NGINX developers demo how to build, deploy, and manage application using NGINX Unit.
Filesystem Isolation in NGINX Unit
We explore two use cases for filesystem isolation in NGINX Unit. First, we stop attackers from accessing sensitive information, by restricting a compromised app to its sandbox directory. Second, we toggle between sets of global dependencies by defining them in separate filesystems.