This free, complete ebook delves into the advantages of using NGINX native capabilities in an API gateway. It shows you, step-by-step, how to set up the correct environment, how to get started with an API gateway, how to secure it, and how to publish gRPC services.
This free O’Reilly ebook is a practical guide to load balancing services in the cloud. As machines are provisioned and decommissioned to meet demand, you need to distribute traffic intelligently. This ebook walks you through the strategy of using NGINX and AWS NLB, as well as Route 53.
Learn how to configure caching, load balancing, security, cloud deployments, gRPC, HTTP/2 server push, and other critical NGINX features in this free O’Reilly ebook
This free O’Reilly ebook excerpt provides developers, site reliability engineers, and software architects with a look at container networking, container orchestration, and service discovery, and shares several solutions. It also covers the capabilities of many open source tools, including Kubernetes.
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Turbocharge Your NGINX Deployment
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Ahmet Houssein of Solarflare describes how the company’s XtremeScale technology with Universal Kernel Bypass accelerates NGINX performance, increasing QPS up to 4X compared to a kernel solution, while linearly scaling performance.
Best Practices for Caching
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Kevin Jones of NGINX, Inc. explains how NGINX caching improves the user experience of your applications. He reviews and analyzes all of the available caching features and directives, and demos a working sample configuration.
Demo: How to Configure NGINX Unit for a Production Application
In her session at NGINX Conf 2018, Amanda Bockoven, Sales Engineer at NGINX, Inc., shows how the multilingual and dynamic application server, NGINX Unit, can fit into your environment. As an example, she adds a new Django application to the configuration.
Demo: Tips for Managing NGINX at Scale with NGINX Controller
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Jason Feldt, Director, Project Management at NGINX, Inc. presents an interactive demo of NGINX Controller functionality, and relays responses from customers and prospects so far. He invites attendees to help shape the product roadmap.
Reading the NGINX Unit Changelog Together
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Nick Shadrin of NGINX, Inc. explains how to get the most out of the changelog for NGINX Unit that's posted with each release. He details numerous features added during the beta period and since version 1.0 was published.
Reading nginx CHANGES Together
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Maxim Dounin, Developer at NGINX, Inc. summarizes various new features and changes in the NGINX 1.13.x and 1.14.x branches, plus features being developed in the 1.15.x branches. Features of note include gRPC and HTTP/2 server push.
Help Yourself! A Tale of Adoption, DevOps, and the Challenge of Delivering Self-Service for a High-Growth Service
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Christopher Litsinger of Comcast describes how his team replaced a commercial API management gateway with an NGINX-based in-house solution, leading to lower latencies and 15x transaction rates. They then converted the system to self-service.
Testing in the Hundred Microservices World, when the Pyramid Becomes an Hourglass
In her keynote at NGINX Conf 2018, Isa Vilacides of ClouBees traces her team's transition from testing monolithic applications to testing integrations of hundreds of microservices. They found that microservices come at a price: brittle, slow, and infra-dependent tests.
Migrating Load-Balanced Services from F5 to NGINX Plus
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Ernesto Chaves of AppNexus describes how the company replaced all of its F5 hardware load balancers with NGINX Plus, detailing the steps and challenges his team went through, and the successes. He also presents HTTP/S benchmark data.
NGINX Transport Layer Security and Payload Compression Accelerated with Intel QuickAssist Technology
In his session at NGINX Conf 2018, Gordon McFadden of Intel describes the features of the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) chipset and associated software stack. He explores how QAT integrates with NGINX and shares the results of benchmarking with and without QAT.