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Floyd Smith

Job title : Director of Content Marketing
Company : NGINX
Floyd Smith

Floyd Earl Smith has been involved in application development since the launch of the Macintosh and has written more than 20 books on hardware and software topics. He now writes for the NGINX blog, including contributing to blog posts and webinars about the NGINX Microservices Reference Architecture, a breakthrough microservices framework.

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Using an API Gateway for Microservices

NGINX technical architect Charles Pretzer describes the advantages of using an API gateway and how it fits in your journey to microservices. He also reveals which microservices and service mesh architectures can use an API gateway-type approach, and which can't.

NGINX: Basics and Best Practices

In this webinar we help you get started using NGINX, the de facto web server for building modern web applications. We cover best practices for installing, configuring, and troubleshooting both NGINX Open Source and the enterprise-grade NGINX Plus.

NGINX, Istio, and the Move to Microservices and Service Mesh

In this webinar we discuss microservices architectures, and describe how NGINX – a well-known, high-performance web server, reverse proxy server, and load balancer – is also emerging as a widely used microservices hub, as a Kubernetes Ingress controller, and as a sidecar proxy in the Istio service mesh.

What Is a Service Mesh?

A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for microservices application that makes communication flexible, reliable, and fast. It’s implemented through a sidecar proxy for service discovery, load balancing, encryption, authentication and authorization, circuit breaker support, and more.