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Accelerating Your Web Application with NGINX
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation about accelerating web applications with NGINX. The presentation covers the history and architecture of NGINX, its core features including load balancing, caching, and health checking. It also discusses NGINX Plus' additional capabilities such as advanced load balancing, security controls, and high availability. The agenda concludes with a live demo of NGINX.
Accelerating Your Web Application with NGINX
- 1. Accelerating Your Web Applicationswith NGINX Kevin Jones Twitter: @webopsx https://www.nginx.com/blog/author/kjones/
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- 3. • A brieflook at the history of NGINX • A glance at NGINX’s efficient and powerful software architecture • A overview of the core features and functionality of NGINX • A look at NGINX Plus as an application delivery platform • Last but not least a live demo. Yea! Todays Agenda
- 5. Building a greatapplication is only half the battle, delivering the application is the other half.
- 6. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM “…when I started NGINX, I focused on a very specific problem – how to handle more customers per single server.” - Igor Sysoev, NGINX creator & our founder
- 7. NGINX has become theheart of the modern web
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- 11. MORE INFORMATION ATNGINX.COM Solves complexity… Web Server Load BalancerReverse Proxy Content Cache Streaming Media Server
- 12. 180 milliontotal sites runningon NGINX
- 13. 53%of the Top10,000 most visited websites
- 14. 36%of all instanceson Amazon Web Services Source: W3Techs December 2013 Web Server Survey
- 15. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud BareMetal Containers 15
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- 18. MORE INFORMATION ATNGINX.COM About NGINX Software, Inc. • Founded in 2011 • VC-backed by enterprise software industry leaders • Offices in SF, London, and Moscow • Ireland office coming soon… • Over a thousand commercial customers • A little over 100 employees today
- 19. MORE INFORMATION ATNGINX.COM In 2013 we launched…
- 20. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM ✓HTTP / TCP / UDP Load Balancing ✓ Multiple algorithms: • Round Robin, Least time, Least Connections ✓ Session Persistence ✓ Session Draining ✓ Request routing ✓ Advanced Cache Controls using an HTTP API endpoint Advanced Load Balancing & Caching
- 21. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM ✓Regular Expression based ✓ Validate health of your backend applications ✓ Match specific HTTP responses… • Status Codes • Headers • Body ✓ Layer 4 TCP/UDP send and expect based health check available Based on health… ✓ Stop sending traffic to unhealthy nodes ✓ Slow start – Allow for warm-up period Advanced Health Checks & Failover
- 22. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM Security& Access Controls ✓ Secure delivery for HTTP, TCP and UDP ✓ Authentication support ✓ JWT Authentication and Authorization ✓ DDoS protection and dynamic rate controls • Request limiting • Connection limiting • Bandwidth controls ✓ Limit access by creating whitelists, blacklists based on IP, geolocation data ✓ Web Application Firewall support with ModSecurity
- 23. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM ✓Configuration and services can be easily integrated with popular platforms for continous integration and delivery ✓ Dynamic reconfiguration of your backend application servers ✓ Eliminate maintenance downtime with live binary upgrades ✓ Live Activity Monitoring Dashboard and JSON API ✓ Integration with popular APM tools Monitoring & Management Tools
- 24. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM VirtualIP Virtual IP Active Backup Failover NGINX Deployed in a High-Availability Pair
- 25. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM APIGateway NGINX provides: • Integration • Security • Request Routing • Optimization • Scalability
- 26. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM Microservices DeployingNGINX along side each microservice allows you to… • Manage connections • Offload authentication • Secure the service • Cache results
- 27. MORE INFORMATION AT NGINX.COM 9.5/10 AverageCustomer Satisfaction Rating 26min. Average Initial Response Time 27 Best-in-Class Support from NGINX Engineers
- 28. MORE INFORMATION ATNGINX.COM Key Features of NGINX Plus Massively Scalable Content Caching Intelligent Session Persistence High- Availability Deployment Modes Sophisticated Streaming Media Application- Aware Health Checks Advanced Activity Monitoring DevOps- Friendly On-the-Fly Configuration High- Performance Load Balancing
- 29. MORE INFORMATION ATNGINX.COM www.nginx.com/developer-license code: odw2016 Developer License
- 30. MORE INFORMATION ATNGINX.COM And now for a live demo of NGINX!
- 31. Thank you forcoming! https://goo.gl/Xfofw E