Although virtual machines have been overshadowed in recent years by the buzz around containers, their use continues to increase. NGINX and NGINX Plus are widely used as a virtual load balancer in such deployments. In this article we spell out the many advantages of virtual load balancers for many use cases and describe how to quickly…
Continue reading ›NGINX and NGINX Plus Everywhere
The open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus, the commercially supported product built on NGINX, have become the application delivery platform for the most demanding web sites and applications in the world. Combined they now power over 50% of the world’s 10,000 busiest websites. NGINX and NGINX Plus provide flexibility, power, and simplicity on a scale that…
Continue reading ›Launching nginScript and Looking Ahead
Editor – This post describes an early version of nginScript, which is now called the NGINX JavaScript module. For a description of the current implementation of the module, which became generally available in NGINX Plus R12, see Introduction to the NGINX JavaScript Module. I’ve been wanting to add more scripting capabilities to NGINX for a long time. Scripting…
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