Blog posts on 2016

Sampling Requests with NGINX Conditional Logging

With NGINX conditional logging, you can log a subset of requests which have defined characteristics. This blog uses it to solve a real-world customer use case: the need to reject obsolete and insecure...

The Cloud-Ready ADC: What’s In It for the Business?

A cloud-ready application delivery controller is not your traditional ADC. Available for deployment on custom or COTS hardware, it’s a scalable software-solution supporting both the need for fast, sec...

The Cloud-Ready ADC: What’s in it for DevOps?

A cloud-ready application delivery controller (ADC) is not your traditional ADC. Available for deployment on custom or COTS hardware, it’s a scalable software-solution supporting both the need for fas...

The Cloud-Ready ADC: What’s in it for NetOps?

A cloud-ready application delivery controller (ADC) is not your traditional ADC. Available for deployment on custom or COTS hardware, it’s a scalable software-solution supporting both the need for fas...

The Great Cloud Diaspora: 10 Years of Change

It has been 10 years now since Amazon set the digital world on fire with the introduction of Amazon Web Services. Or as most of us today call it, public cloud. Since then, the landscape has grown incr...

The Cloud-Ready ADC

A cloud-ready application delivery controller (ADC) is not your traditional ADC. Available for deployment on custom or COTS hardware, it’s a scalable software-solution supporting both the need for fas...

NGINX and NGINX Plus Ingress Controllers for Kubernetes Load Balancing

Use the Ingress controllers for NGINX and NGINX Plus to integrate their sophisticated features into the built-in Kubernetes load-balancing framework.

Public cloud stacks in AWS embracing emerging technologies

Privacy Matters

When Things Attack, Turn to Cloud

Cyber. Things. Security. DDoS. These are digital disruptions; the modern equivalent of enemies at the gate.

BlackNurse and Denial of Cloudy Business Attacks

iSeries: Not Just a Better, Bigger, and Faster BIG-IP

DevOps for NetOps is about Scale

And scale leads to speed. And speed leads to success. Suppose one engineer can process a change request in two hours. Suppose another engineer can process that change request in 1.5 hours. If they wo...

Halflings, Dragons, and DDoS Attacks

Making Sense of the Last Month of DDoS Attacks

Compiling Third-Party Dynamic Modules for NGINX and NGINX Plus

Compile dynamic modules in NGINX Plus R11 and later to take advantage of the broad range of additional functionality contributed by NGINX community members.

Lift and Shift with Confidence

Rigidity of the Org, not Hardware, is Holding up App Deployments

Get Off of My Cloud!

The latest from F5's Jay Kelley includes a list of considerations when deploying a new identity and access solution for Microsoft Office 365.

You want big data? You can’t handle big data…

Current infrastructure cannot handle the projected explosion of data, connections, and traffic as the world moves into the digital economy. We talk about the digital economy but we don’t often dive in...

Are Mobile Operators Ready for the Connected Car?

New in-vehicle services and content consumption will greatly contribute to the need for wireless bandwidth and mobile network capacity.

Colo Cloud: The Best of Both Worlds

Cloud, compliance, and certifications. It's a complex world out there.

Don’t Sacrifice Services for Speed

No, not that kind of speed. The other kind of speed. Velocity, the speed with which applications can be developed and released into production, is a common driver of organizations adopting agile deve...

An Office in the Clouds

A look at one of the most popular business productivity software suites ever, the keys to its longevity, and some of its challenges.

Stop. Just Stop. HTTPS is not faster than HTTP.

F5 joins Docker Partner Program to Secure, Scale, and Speed up Containerized Apps

To say that Docker’s container technology is experiencing explosive growth and adoption is not mere hyperbole or wishful thinking on the part of its highly vocal advocates. Nary a day goes by that doe...

IP Transparency and Direct Server Return with NGINX and NGINX Plus as Transparent Proxy

Improve TCP and UDP performance by configuring NGINX and NGINX Plus as a transparent proxy for IP Transparency and Direct Server Return.

The Answer to IT’s Kobayashi Maru: Private Cloud

Securing your Borderless Business

Applications. Applications Everywhere.

For the past few years we (as in the corporate We) have delved into the data center to discover how and why and where enterprises deploy and deliver applications with our State of Application Delivery...