This article was originally posted on Black Duck Software’s Open Source Delivers blog. In the next 20 years, it will be nearly impossible to develop large-scale software or platforms without using open source software. The genie is out of the bottle, and all of the most significant digital business and innovation is happening in open…

It wasn’t long ago that open source software was the poor cousin of proprietary tools. It was the software you picked if you couldn’t afford “real software” and were willing to make do with fewer features and spotty support. Not anymore. Instead of asking “why open source?”, CIOs now first ask “where else can we…

The new year is well underway and, like many others, you are probably planning upcoming projects to enhance your existing digital experiences or build completely new websites and applications. As you do so, the most critical fact to keep in mind is that “web” no longer means “web browser.” Pundits have been espousing a “mobile…

We’re excited to announce the release of a new ebook from O’Reilly Media, Building Microservices by Sam Newman. NGINX has teamed up with O’Reilly to offer an extract from the ebook as a free download. Microservices architecture is the current state of the art in application development, enabling developers and architects to keep pace with…

I took the above title from a recent article in Forbes and it’s true. Most people haven’t heard of NGINX, but in fact they most likely use it every day, if not every hour, they’re on the Internet. NGINX underpins the everyday life of nearly everyone connected to the web, whether they’re reserving a room…