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Freenginx: Core Nginx Developer Announces Fork of Popular Web Server
Recently, a former employee of F5 and main contributor of the Nginx project announced the fork Freenginx of the popular web server. The new project was started to address a security dispute and wants to be a drop-in replacement of Nginx, run by developers rather than corporate entities.
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NGINX Modules Can Now Be Written in Rust
NGINX announced the availability of ngx-rust project which allows developers to write NGINX modules in Rust. The Rust programming language has emerged as a powerful and popular choice due to its stability, security features a rich ecosystem, and strong community support.
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Microsoft Launches the Public Preview of NGINX for Azure as a SaaS Solution in Their Marketplace
Microsoft recently announced NGINX for Azure, a natively integrated software (SaaS) solution with advanced traffic management and monitoring. The service is available in preview on the Azure Marketplace.
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NGINX Controller Application Delivery Modules Improve Health Checks and Caching Configurations
NGINX has released new versions of their NGINX Controller Application Delivery Module, a control plane solution for NGINX Plus load balancers. The new features include enhanced workload health-checks, improvements to caching configuration, and instance groups.
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NGINX Releases Controller 3.0 with Major Redesign Providing Consolidated Application View
NGINX announced the release of NGINX Controller 3.0, their control-plane solution to manage the NGINX data plane. The 3.0 release sees a full redesign of Controller moving it into an "app-centric experience" that allows for interacting with the infrastructure at the application level. This includes a full configuration API, a role based self-service portal, and a built in certificate manager.
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NGINX Unit Adds Support for Reverse Proxying and Address-Based Routing
NGINX announced the release of versions 1.13 and 1.14 of NGINX Unit, its open-source web and application server. These releases include support for reverse proxying and address-based routing based on the connected client's IP address and the target address of the request.
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Managing Global CDN Operations at Netflix
At the recent Strange Loop conference, Robert Fernandes, engineering manager at Netflix, who leads the Open Connect Tools team, gave a talk on how they manage operations for Netflix’s in-house OpenConnect content delivery network (CDN).
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Load Balancing Search Traffic at Algolia with NGINX and OpenResty
Algolia’s engineering team made the switch from round-robin DNS load-balancing to a mix of DNS and NGINX with OpenResty. The solution, which uses custom Lua and Go code, and Redis-based service discovery of backend servers, helped in distributing load across their app servers and preventing latency issues.
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NGINX Plus Release 18 Available with Support for Dynamic Certificate Loading
NGINX has released version 18 (R18) of NGINX Plus, their all-in-one load balancer, content cache, and web server. This release includes support for dynamic certificate loading, enhancements to their OpenID Connect implementation, and the ability to specify port ranges for virtual servers.
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New API Management Solution from NGINX Optimized for Internal and External APIs
The NGINX API Management Module announced at the NGINX Conference in October last year is now generally available. Liam Crilly, director of product management at NGINX, describes the new module together with NGINX Plus and NGINX Controller, as a next generation API management solution optimized for handling both external and internal APIs.
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Kong 1.0 GA Released with Service Mesh Support and Plugin Development Kit
Kong Inc., has released Kong 1.0., the latest generally available (GA) version of their flagship API gateway. Although typically deployed at the edge of a network for the handling of external “north-south” API traffic, Kong also be can deployed as a “service mesh” in front of any backend service.
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Scaling Global Traffic at Dropbox with Edge Locations and GSLB
The Dropbox engineering team shared their experience of architecting and scaling their global network of edge locations. Located around the globe, these run a custom stack of nginx and IPVS and connect to the Dropbox backend servers over their backbone network. A combination of GeoDNS and BGP Anycast ensures availability and low latency for end users.
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NGINX Interview: Enterprise Adoption of Software Load Balancing, API Gateways, and Service Meshes
InfoQ recently sat down with Rob Whiteley, Sidney Rabsatt, Liam Crilly from NGINX, and discussed their views on the future of networking and data center communication. NGINX aims to be a “trusted advisor” and provide an “easy on-ramp” for enterprises looking to leverage software load balancers, ingress gateways, and service meshes, as is appropriate to their current technology landscape and goals.
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NGINX Controller Reaches General Availability
NGINX Controller, a centralized monitoring and management platform for NGINX Plus instances, has now reached general availability. It is part of NGINX Application platform, a set of enterprise products from NGINX.
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NGINX Releases Open Source Web Server with Dynamic Configuration
NGINX recently released version 1.0 of Unit, an open-source web and application server. The server supports remote and dynamic configuration and incurs no service interruptions for configuration changes. Unit 1.0 also supports multiple languages (Go, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby) running on the same instance, including multiple versions of the same language.