Software has replaced hardware in many application delivery stacks, but a set of single-purpose solutions is nearly as complex and hard to manage as hardware. NGINX Plus consolidates API gateway and load balancing functions into a single, lightweight platform.
Announcing NGINX Plus R15
NGINX Plus R15 introduces native gRPC proxying (used by Istio and other service mesh architectures), HTTP/2 server push, state sharing in a cluster, API gateway enhancements, OpenID Connect integration, NGINX JavaScript (njs) module enhancements, a new ALPN variable, dynamic module updates, and more.
Microservices & API Gateways, Part 2: How Kong Can Help
Marco Palladino, CTO at Mashape, explains how API gateways like Kong product help you organize, maintain, and deploy your microservices application.
Microservices & API Gateways, Part 1: Why an API Gateway?
Marco Palladino, CTO at Mashape, on use cases for an API gateway in a microservices architecture, with load balancing and circuit breakers.
Building Microservices: Using an API Gateway
Learn why and how to build microservices using API gateways for communication between clients and applications.
Manage Your API Gateway for Less with 3scale and NGINX Plus
This blog describes a joint offering from NGINX and 3scale that is no longer available.