NGINX Blog

With NGINX Plus in front of your web apps, API, and mobile backends hosted in Microsoft Azure App Service, you can load balance and secure applications at a global scale with a high level of protection against exploits and attacks from the web.

In this companion post to our video "NGINX Unit: Live App Updates at 100% Uptime", we provide all the background and details for each step so you can follow along as we update an application in a multilingual NGINX Unit environment without disruption or downtime.

Software has replaced hardware in many application delivery stacks, but a set of single-purpose solutions is nearly as complex and hard to manage as hardware. NGINX Plus consolidates API gateway and load balancing functions into a single, lightweight platform.

Gartner analyst David David Cappuccio has identified ten top trends in Infrastructure & Operations for 2018. The enterprise-grade products in the NGINX Application Platform help you keep on top of these trends as you continue your journey to digital transformation.

The "Deep Dive" track is a new feature at this year's NGINX Conf, with sessions by and for NGINX-savvy developers and DevOps experts. No high-level messaging, but plenty of practical information and curated code examples. Join us October 8–11 in Atlanta GA.

The 51Degrees NGINX Plus Certified Module combines the efficiency and performance of NGINX Plus with 51Degrees' s patented device detection and high-fidelity analytics. The result is a superior, customized user experience and increased conversion rates on your site.

NGINX Plus R16 is a single, elastic ingress and egress tier for applications, consolidating the functionality of a load balancer, API gateway, and WAF with new features like cluster‑aware rate limiting, key‑value store, Random with Two Choices, enhanced UDP load balancing, and more.

This part of our series on deploying NGINX Plus as an API gateway - along with its other rich functionality - focuses on gatewaying gRPC services. gRPC is an alternative to REST APIs for building distributed applications, service mesh implementations in particular.

Web hosting company Atlantic.Net uses NGINX internally and features NGINX prominently in customer offerings. In this post Derek Wiedenhoeft, DevOps Operations Engineer at Atlantic.Net, explains the advantages of a LEMP stack over a LAMP stack and describes a few ways to get the most out of NGINX.

You can download a free copy of the complete ebook, The Enterprise Path to Service Mesh Architectures, immediately. This ebook explains service mesh architectures from an enterprise point of view and tells you how to adopt a service mesh architecture in your own microservices applications.