NGINX Blog

Assembly language is popular in all kinds of system software and we believe that web development can also benefit from the advantages it provides. Today we're pleased to add support for assembly language to NGINX Unit. Web development in assembly has never been so easy.

Our Code Connects Us All initiative underlines the positive impact that the software code we create and collaborate on has on our society and our livelihoods. We celebrate how our customers, partners, and open source community use our technology to further humanitarian causes in their local communities.

The NGINX Application Platform accelerates application delivery from code to customer with a comprehensive API delivery solution that spans from creation of API functions through their delivery to end users. Step-by-step instructions for configuring NGINX Controller and NGINX Unit are provided.

Organizations on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic are experiencing increased website traffic from users who now must access resources remotely. NGINX and F5 are offering free software, documentation, and training to help websites scale easily to meet increased demand, and calling on our open source community members to lend their expertise too.

Does your API respond to requests within 30ms? If not, it's not a real-time API with the kind of low latency that the vast majority of organizations demand. Measure your API's latency with the rtapi tool from NGINX, and find out how NGINX can help your API achieve real-time responsiveness.

Lorcan McVeigh describes what it's like to intern as a Software Engineer at the NGINX office in Cork, Ireland. He discusses how NGINX's team approach to software development not only leads to better code but also makes the company a great place to grow your skills.

In this solution, we use NGINX Plus's active health checks and key-value store to track and store application status across multiple sites, and NGINX JavaScript to update DNS records maintained by BIG-IP DNS and DNS Load Balancer Cloud Service, based on the status information.

The Tala Security Certified Module for NGINX Plus leverages 150+ browser‑native controls to protect websites and apps from critical and growing threats -- such as XSS, Magecart, website supply‑chain attacks, and clickjacking -- without changes to application or client-side code.

Zack Belcher explores 5 reasons Vizuri recommends software-based load balancers to its customers instead of specialized, on-premises hardware appliances: they can enhance agility, facilitate modernization, increase flexibility, boost scalability, and lower costs.

We examine the state of API gateways as the industry transitions from monolithic to microservices‑based apps, considering the challenges of hugely distributed app environments. We explore the role of API gateways in a service mesh and in hybrid clouds.