A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for microservices application that makes communication flexible, reliable, and fast. It’s implemented through a sidecar proxy for service discovery, load balancing, encryption, authentication and authorization, circuit breaker support, and more.
Owen Garrett

Owen is a senior member of the NGINX Product Management team, covering open source and commercial NGINX products. He holds a particular responsibility for microservices and Kubernetes‑centric solutions. He’s constantly amazed by the ingenuity of NGINX users and still learns of new ways to use NGINX with every discussion.
Introducing gRPC Support with NGINX 1.13.10
NGINX now proxies gRPC traffic, so you can terminate, inspect, and route gRPC method calls. Manage encryption and load balance gRPC traffic.
Introducing HTTP/2 Server Push with NGINX 1.13.9
HTTP/2 Server Push is new in NGINX 1.13.9. Learn how to use it to accelerate your website performance in this blog post.
NGINX Response to the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities stem from commonly found security flaws in microprocessors. They require patches to most OSs.
NGINX Amplify is Generally Available
Owen Garrett, Head of Products, reviews NGINX products from previous keynotes and delivers a final demo, of NGINX Amplify
NGINX Product Roadmap 2017
Owen Garrett, Head of Products, introduces NGINX Unit, NGINX Controller, and the NGINX Application Platform
Announcing General Availability of the NGINX ModSecurity WAF for NGINX Plus
The NGINX Plus with ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF) protects you from a broad range of security threats, including DDoS attacks, SQLi, and XSS.
Introducing NGINX 1.12 and 1.13
NGINX announces the availability of the latest branches of its open source NGINX software, version 1.12 (stable branch) and version 1.13 (mainline branch).
Announcing NGINX Plus R12
NGINX Plus Release 12 includes configuration sharing, production-ready nginScript, and enhancements to statistics reporting, caching, and health checks.
Shared Caches with NGINX Plus Cache Clusters, Part 2
Make your cache highly available and minimize the load on origin servers with primary and secondary NGINX or NGINX Plus web cache servers.