As 2019 comes to an end, we take a moment to look back at the most popular and noteworthy moments from the NGINX blog.

NGINX Plus R20 builds on the enhancements made in R19 to rate limiting, adding real-time monitoring and logging; connection limiting now has the same features. We also added prefix matching in the key-value store, DNS resolution per upstream group, new PROXY Protocol variables, and improved security for HTTP/2.

In this blog we show how to use NGINX Plus for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of applications behind the Ingress in a Kubernetes environment. We provide instructions for all components: Azure as the identity provider, Kubernetes, Docker, NGINX Plus, and a sample application.

There are always concerns when an enterprise acquires open source projects. NGINX CEO Gus Robertson explains why F5 is committed to maintaining and growing NGINX Open Source and other open source projects.

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.

NGINX Conf 2018 has two days of demos and presentations on NGINX Plus, NGINX Controller, NGINX Unit, NGINX Ingress Controller, and more. You can also see the big picture, how it all works together as part of the NGINX Application Platform. Register now for Early Bird savings.

NGINX Plus R15 introduces native gRPC proxying (used by Istio and other service mesh architectures), HTTP/2 server push, state sharing in a cluster, API gateway enhancements, OpenID Connect integration, NGINX JavaScript (njs) module enhancements, a new ALPN variable, dynamic module updates, and more.

NGINX now proxies gRPC traffic, so you can terminate, inspect, and route gRPC method calls. Manage encryption and load balance gRPC traffic.

HTTP/2 Server Push is new in NGINX 1.13.9. Learn how to use it to accelerate your website performance in this blog post.

Top 5 2017 blog posts: NGINX Plus Release 12, microservices, load balancing, security, and the NGINX Application Platform.