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  • These OSS Projects Will Be the Next Big Thing

    These OSS Projects Will Be the Next Big Thing

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    For developers and DevOps, the future is now. Identify the technologies that will change your world.

  • Three Steps for Starting Your Cloud-Native Journey with Kubernetes

    Three Steps for Starting Your Cloud-Native Journey with Kubernetes

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    The journey to cloud native doesn’t happen overnight. Learn how Kubernetes and NGINX can help as you start moving from monolithic to microservices-based apps.

  • 5 Things to Know About NGINX Gateway Fabric

    5 Things to Know About NGINX Gateway Fabric

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    Having worked the past several years to help you succeed on your Kubernetes journey, F5 NGINX has reached another milestone – we’ve released the first major version of the newest addition…

  • Seven Guidelines for Implementing Zero Trust in Kubernetes

    Seven Guidelines for Implementing Zero Trust in Kubernetes

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    More and more organizations, including the U.S. government, are recognizing the need for Zero Trust security. ZT is particularly important for distributed environments like Kubernetes. Follow our seven practical guidelines to implement ZT more easily and effectively.

  • Lessons from the 2021 NGINX Survey: Your Kubernetes Adoption Journey

    Lessons from the 2021 NGINX Survey: Your Kubernetes Adoption Journey

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    Our 2021 survey of the NGINX community reveals that two-thirds of you are using Kubernetes in production or planning to deploy within a year. But you’re also concerned about your level of knowledge and the complexity, security, and scalability of Kubernetes itself.

  • Do Svidaniya, Igor, and Thank You for NGINX

    Do Svidaniya, Igor, and Thank You for NGINX

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    With profound gratitude for his contributions to both F5 and the Internet at large, we announce that Igor Sysoev, author of NGINX and co-founder of NGINX, Inc., is retiring to spend time with friends and family and work on personal projects. Спасибо, Игорь.

  • Using NGINX as an Object Storage Gateway

    Using NGINX as an Object Storage Gateway

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    Deploying NGINX as a caching reverse proxy in front of Amazon S3 and S3-compatible object stores has two benefits: NGINX caches requests to your object store and prevents unwanted discovery of its contents. Get complete installation and configuration instructions.

  • Comparing NGINX Performance in Bare Metal and Virtual Environments

    Comparing NGINX Performance in Bare Metal and Virtual Environments

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    We compare NGINX performance in bare-metal and virtualized (hypervisor) environments, finding a small but measurable performance cost for hypervisors. We also find that performance in Kubernetes environments is worse for network-bound but not CPU-bound operations.

  • Defining a Modern App

    Defining a Modern App

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    What exactly do we mean when we talk about “modern apps”? We describe four key features that we believe an app must have to be modern — scalability, portability, resiliency, and agility — and six principles to guide development of your own modern apps.

  • Building Smaller Container Images

    Building Smaller Container Images

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    Small is beautiful when it comes to containers in test and dev environments: they take less time to build, use less memory, and have a smaller attack surface. We explore tools and provides instructions for building images that are a small as possible.

  • Running Spring Boot Applications in a Zero Trust Environment with NGINX Unit

    Running Spring Boot Applications in a Zero Trust Environment with NGINX Unit

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    NGINX Unit makes supporting HTTPS simple and completely application-agnostic, because encryption is applied at the level of the listener, not the application. No need to dig into language‑specific details! In this blog we illustrate HTTPS configuration for a Spring Boot application.

  • Updates to NGINX Unit for Summer 2021

    Updates to NGINX Unit for Summer 2021

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    NGINX Unit 1.23.0 and 1.24.0 introduce support for the SNI extension to TLS, definition of OpenSSL configuration commands, MIME filtering and path restrictions for static content, and multiple Python scripts in one app. Also, you no longer need to modify Node.js apps to run them in Unit.

  • Why Every Company Needs Platform Ops

    Why Every Company Needs Platform Ops

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    Not just another variant in the ever-growing set of “X-Ops” practices, Platform Ops is a way to balance developer freedom and corporate compliance for technology teams across the enterprise, helping you achieve digital transformation with the right blend of shifted left and buttoned down.

  • Ditching the Script: Learning How to Live Stream at NGINX

    Ditching the Script: Learning How to Live Stream at NGINX

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    Research shows that many prefer live streaming to recorded video, blogs, and other media. Join NGINX Content Manager Marco Martinez for a backstage tour of how he creates live-streamed content at NGINX. We welcome your input on what you want to see on the NGINX live stream.

  • Demoing NGINX at Sprint 2.0 – From Blast Off to Stable Orbit

    Demoing NGINX at Sprint 2.0 – From Blast Off to Stable Orbit

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    Preview the seven demos presented by the NGINX team on August 24 at NGINX Sprint 2021, our annual virtual event. We show how NGINX solutions accelerate just about every step in your app development journey, from deploying the first reverse proxy to launching a service mesh.

  • What Are Namespaces and cgroups, and How Do They Work?

    What Are Namespaces and cgroups, and How Do They Work?

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    Dive deep into two Linux features that underlie containers: namespaces and cgroups. They enable process isolation, ensuring that multiple processes running on a system don’t interfere with one another. Our NGINX Unit application server also uses them for application isolation.

  • Our Roadmap for QUIC and HTTP/3 Support in NGINX

    Our Roadmap for QUIC and HTTP/3 Support in NGINX

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    We describe the state of our QUIC+HTTP/3 implementation, starting with a review of the work we’ve done so far. Our roadmap includes merging the nginx-quic development branch into the NGINX mainline and implementing performance optimizations. You can help by testing the implementation.

  • Supporting Pride Month Through Action

    Supporting Pride Month Through Action

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    This Pride Month, Scott De Buitléir reflects on life lessons he’s learned on his LGBTQ+ rugby team, and reviews some projects undertaken by NGINX and F5 over the past year to benefit our local and global communities.