In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Timo Stark, Web developer and Web Solution Architect at Audi, shares how the automobile company went from 0 to 60 on its journey to microservices. In less than a year, his team built the Audi Cockpit, a dashboard on which Audi employees can access all the internal apps they use in…
Continue reading ›Announcing General Availability of the NGINX API Management Solution
Are you thinking about building a digital marketplace where you can expose APIs for your products and services? Or are you building an internal application using microservices that connect via API calls? If so, you need an API management solution. Unfortunately, first‑generation API management solutions are inadequate. They are too complex and deliver poor performance,…
Continue reading ›Do You Really Need Different Kinds of API Gateways? (Hint: No!)
API gateways are the bedrock of API infrastructure. API gateways secure and mediate traffic between backend applications that expose their APIs and the consumers of the APIs. For example, API gateways can manage the API traffic generated by calls from a mobile application like Uber to a backend application like Google Maps. API gateway functionality…
Continue reading ›What Is API Management?
At NGINX Conf 2018 in October, we announced the new API Management Module for NGINX Controller. With this product we build on our position as the industry's most‑deployed API gateway – millions of sites already use NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus to secure and mediate traffic between backend applications and the consumers of the APIs which those…
Continue reading ›Updating the NGINX Application Platform with New Clustering, API Management, and Service Mesh Capabilities
[ngx_snippet name='style-bolder-h4-h5'] The world is going digital at breakneck speed. Technology is front and center in our day‑to‑day lives. From entertainment to banking to how we communicate with our friends, technology has changed how we interact with the world. Businesses of all sizes and in all industries are rolling out compelling digital capabilities to attract,…
Continue reading ›Introducing NGINX API Management: Manage NGINX Plus API Gateways with NGINX Controller
Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become central to the digital economy. Forbes dubbed 2017 the year of the API economy. According to Programmable Web, the de facto journal of the API economy, APIs have witnessed explosive growth over the last five years. Since January 2014, an average of more than 2,000 public APIs have been added per year,…
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