[Editor – The solution described in this post uses deprecated technologies: fleet, which CoreOS officially stopped supporting in February, 2018 in favor of Kubernetes. Moreover, CoreOS was acquired by Red Hat in January, 2018. The NGINX Plus Upstream Conf module, which is deprecated and replaced by the NGINX Plus API in NGINX Plus R13 and later. The post has not been…
Continue reading ›Advanced MySQL Load Balancing with NGINX Plus
In this article, we explain how to use some of the advanced features in NGINX Plus and the open source NGINX software to load balance MySQLTM database servers in a Galera cluster. We explore one approach to eliminating replication problems in a cluster, the advantages of splitting reads and writes across load‑balancing database servers, and how…
Continue reading ›Using NGINX and NGINX Plus to Load Balance Oracle WebLogic Server
Oracle WebLogic Server is one of the world’s most popular enterprise-level Java EE platforms. The resilient, event-driven architecture of NGINX and NGINX Plus make them a reliable, scalable, and high-performance solution for effectively load balancing your WebLogic Server applications. The open source NGINX software acts as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and content cache, as well as…
Continue reading ›NGINX Plus and Google Load Balancers on the Google Cloud Platform
[ngx_snippet name='table-style-blog'] [Editor – This post has been updated to refer to the NGINX Plus API, which replaces and deprecates the separate dynamic configuration module mentioned in the original version of the post. For step‑by‑step instructions on deploying a highly available NGINX Plus load‑balancing configuration on GCE, see our deployment guide, All-Active HA for NGINX Plus on…
Continue reading ›NGINX Plus and Microsoft Azure Load Balancers
[ngx_snippet name='table-style-blog'] [Editor – This post has been updated to refer to the NGINX Plus API, which replaces and deprecates the separate dynamic configuration module mentioned in the original version of the post.] Customers using Microsoft Azure have three options for load balancing: NGINX Plus, the Azure load balancing services, or NGINX Plus in conjunction with the Azure…
Continue reading ›10 Tips for 10x Application Performance
Improving web application performance is more critical than ever. The share of economic activity that's online is growing; more than 5% of the developed world’s economy is now on the Internet (see Resources for Internet Statistics below). And our always‑on, hyper‑connected modern world means that user expectations are higher than ever. If your site does not…
Continue reading ›NGINX Plus & Elasticsearch: Better Together
[ngx_snippet name='table-style-blog'] Elasticsearch is an advanced, high‑performance, and scalable open source search engine that provides full‑text search and real‑time analytics for structured and unstructured data. Its features are available using a RESTful API over HTTP, making it easy to fit into modern web architectures. Because NGINX Plus load balances HTTP traffic with outstanding performance at very…
Continue reading ›NGINX Plus Serves Breaking News for InkaBinka
InkaBinka is revolutionizing the way news is delivered and consumed on the Internet, by distilling full‑length news articles into four essential bullet points that readers can absorb in 20 seconds or less, accompanied by animated imagery. InkaBinka's news aggregator engine is growing rapidly and needs a web infrastructure that can hyperscale while delivering an outstanding customer…
Continue reading ›Manage Your API Gateway for Less with 3scale and NGINX Plus
NGINX, Inc. and 3scale are teaming up to offer the highest performing API gateway on the market. For a limited time, special combination packages are being offered at a significant discount. 3scale provides a full‑featured API management solution with exceptional scalability, security, and flexibility to meet the most demanding requirements. 3scale makes it easy to manage…
Continue reading ›NGINX Plus and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing on AWS
[ngx_snippet name='table-style-blog'] Customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) often ask us whether to use NGINX Plus or Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for application load balancing. Amazon has published a whitepaper that describes how to set up NGINX Plus on AWS. This post focuses on the factors to consider as you choose between NGINX Plus and ELB, as…
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