Liam Crilly

This part of our series on deploying NGINX Plus as an API gateway - along with its other rich functionality - focuses on gatewaying gRPC services. gRPC is an alternative to REST APIs for building distributed applications, service mesh implementations in particular.

In the second post in our API gateway series, Liam shows you how to batten down the hatches on your API services. You can use rate limiting, access restrictions, request size limits, and request body validation to frustrate illegitimate or overly burdensome requests.

The advanced HTTP processing capabilities of NGINX and NGINX Plus make it the ideal platform for building an API gateway. We describe API use cases, show how to configure NGINX to handle them in a way that is efficient, scalable, and easy to maintain, and provide a complete NGINX configuration.

We show how to use the NGINX JavaScript module to capture data about requests that cause errors, with enough details to be useful for debugging and troubleshooting, while not cluttering the log with this information about requests that didn't experience errors.

In this webinar we address key questions from customers about NGINX Controller 3.0+, our rearchitected application delivery and API management platform.

Join this webinar to hear firsthand about challenges faced by organisations that wish to adapt to a truly agile digital infrastructure, and the powerful capabilities of DevOps practices such as container orchestration and microservices.

We announce the technology preview of NGINX support for QUIC+HTTP/3 as pre-release software, available for interoperability testing, feedback, and code contributions. HTTP/3 replaces TCP with QUIC, which is designed to support multiplexed connections more reliably.

NGINX Plus R22 introduces new features including support for OCSP to verify certificate revocation for mutual TLS, use of multiple OIDC IdPs in a configuration, real-time tracking of request and connection limiting on the NGINX Plus dashboard, and NGINX JavaScript enhancements.

NGINX Plus R21 is more reliable and secure than ever, importing numerous bug fixes from NGINX Open Source. New variable support in gRPC proxying extends dynamic, API‑driven routing policies to gRPC workloads, and the NGINX JavaScript module has been enhanced, particularly with respect to subrequests.

Watch this webinar to discover the latest updates in NGINX Plus R20, with a walkthrough of new capabilities and security measures.