Scott De Buitléir

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

APIs are playing an increasingly important role in digital transformation at enterprises, in every vertical and region. We review trends in API usage as reported by industry analyst IDC, and explain how NGINX solves the challenges that companies face in deploying and managing APIs.

Scott shares his perspective on NGINX Conf 2019, highlighting a key conference theme--the continuting evolution of applications to act like living organisms. He spotlights a favorite session about NGINX making a difference in the real world by helping Kenya fight its HIV epidemic.

NGINX Global Solutions Architect and DevOps expert Kevin Jones provides practical advice on steps in your transition to DevOps: setting goals, choosing the right tools, fostering cross-functional communication, and measuring the success of your transition.

In this installment of our "Ask NGINX" series, we explain how to install NGINX Plus offline on RHEL/CentOS systems, list currently supported Ubuntu releases, and answer questions about the future of NGINX open source projects now that we're part of F5.

Not sure about going to NGINX Conf 2019 in Seattle this September? Need to convince your manager to send you? Here are seven great reasons you should attend. Don't miss this opportunity to upskill, dive deep, and network with NGINX experts and community leaders!

In this installment of our "Ask NGINX" series, we discuss UDP health checks, having NGINX Plus verify JWTs generated with Microsoft Active Directory, performing client certificate-based authentication for IIS servers, and obtaining metrics for website visits or page views.

In this installment of our "Ask NGINX" series, we discuss how NGINX and NGINX Plus work with Diffie-Hellman, support for Datagram Transport Layer Security, how to control the lifetime of content in the cache, and how to add the NGINX WAF to an NGINX Plus subscription.

Registration is now open for NGINX Conf 2019, taking place on September 9 and 10 in Seattle, WA. Join us for keynotes from industry luminaries and NGINX experts, technical and business breakout sessions, and opportunities to share tips on best practices with fellow NGINX users.

In this installment of our "Ask NGINX" series, we describe how NGINX and NGINX Plus support Nagios, single sign-on, and MQTT; discuss storing cookies in the NGINX Plus key-value store; and explain how to upgrade NGINX Plus licenses from a free trial to a paid subscription.