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 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.

Privacy Matters

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...

Making Sense of the Last Month of DDoS Attacks

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...

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.

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...

For Lift and Shift to the Cloud Success Focus on Architecture

There has emerged two distinct models of “going cloud.” The first, most obvious, is the native approach. Native meaning new, either greenfield or rewritten. The native approach encourages a narrow foc...

3 Things the Network Must Provide for IoT

"The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to be a topic of interest. And while consumer oriented gadgets and gizmos tend to make headlines, it’s the behind the scenes, in the data center prep work being...

Is HEIST a Risk or a Threat?

Are you defending apps, or protecting them?

Technology tends to use a lot of words interchangeably, but in some cases, the difference is actually pretty profound.

The New AAA: APIs, Authentication, and Availability

You might have figured out that yes, I’m one of those people playing Pokémon Go. Or, as is often the case of late, not playing Pokémon Go. That’s bad, because it also means our youngest is not playing...

Securing URLs with the Secure Link Module in NGINX and NGINX Plus

Learn how to secure resources with NGINX and NGINX Plus, by requiring clients to include a hashed value in request URLs, optionally with an expiration date

How to Scale Your Limited Network Staff: Get Rid of the Yaks

Hardware’s Innovation Theorem