Owen Garrett's blog posts
Sr. Director, Product Management
Sr. Director, Product Management
We compare AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) with NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus as a Layer 7 reverse proxy and load balancer. ALB has more features than at its debut in 2016, but we conclude that...
By Owen GarrettWe provide guidance on using NGINX to mitigate the recently discovered vulnerability in PHP-FPM (CVE-2019-11043). The vulnerability is triggered when the PATH_INFO variable passed to PHP-FPM with an i...
By Owen Garrett
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...
By Owen Garrett
The second post of our series about protecting SSL private keys shows how to set up HashiCorp Vault to store the passwords that protect private keys, and to configure NGINX to retrieve the passwords. ...
By Owen Garrett
We describe three progressively more secure ways to protect SSL private keys when configuring NGINX to handle HTTPS traffic: allowing read access only to the root user, encrypting keys with separately...
By Owen Garrett
The Random with Two Choices load-balancing algorithm is NGINX's implementation of the "power of two choices" method. This biased random algorithm has been shown to be effective at balancing loads when...
By Owen Garrett
When Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and related distros, its default settings prevent NGINX and NGINX Plus from performing some operations. This artic...
By Owen Garrett
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.
By Owen GarrettNGINX Plus Release 12 includes configuration sharing, production-ready nginScript, and enhancements to statistics reporting, caching, and health checks.
By Owen GarrettMake your cache highly available and minimize the load on origin servers with primary and secondary NGINX or NGINX Plus web cache servers.
By Owen GarrettMaximize the capacity of your web cache by sharding the cache across multiple NGINX or NGINX Plus web cache servers. Learn how in this post.
By Owen GarrettNGINX Plus Release 11 includes binary compatibility for dynamic modules, enhancements to TCP/UDP load balancing and the NGINX JavaScript module, the new GeoIP2 module, and more.
By Owen Garrett
Compile dynamic modules in NGINX Plus R11 and later to take advantage of the broad range of additional functionality contributed by NGINX community members.
By Owen Garrett
Improve TCP and UDP performance by configuring NGINX and NGINX Plus as a transparent proxy for IP Transparency and Direct Server Return.
By Owen Garrett
I'll talk about how NGINX functions with respect to content caching and performance, and I'll give you some tips for control over how NGINX caches content.
By Owen GarrettNGINX Plus Release 10 includes NGINX ModSecurity WAF and support for JSON Web Token, dual-stack RSA-ECC certificates, transparent proxy, nginScript, and more.
By Owen GarrettUse NGINX/NGINX Plus to prevent the HTTPoxy vulnerability, which attacks CGI and FastCGI-like application interfaces, from being exploited on your servers.
By Owen GarrettNGINX Plus Release 9 includes dynamic modules, UDP load balancing, support for service discovery with DNS SRV records, & new "all you can eat" App Pricing
By Owen GarrettNGINX Plus Release 8 includes support for OAuth 2.0 processing, production-ready HTTP/2, persistent dynamic reconfiguration of upstream servers, & more.
By Owen GarrettLearn about the enhanced features in NGINX Plus Release 7, with support for HTTP/2, performance and security enhancements, greater visibility, and more.
By Owen GarrettLearn how to use the request_auth module in NGINX Plus & NGINX to direct to an LDP server authentication requests from users accessing protected resources
By Owen GarrettTake a deep dive inside NGINX and learn why NGINX is perfectly suited for applications and servers that require high performance and scalability
By Owen GarrettLearn how to use NGINX and NGINX Plus to protect your Windows servers against CVE-2015-1635
By Owen GarrettLearn about the enhanced features in NGINX Plus Release 6, including full‑featured TCP load balancing, high availability, and a new status dashboard.
By Owen GarrettLearn about the great new features in NGINX Plus Release 5 (R5), including TCP load balancing and a host of other load balancing and caching enhancements
By Owen GarrettLearn how to protect NGINX and NGINX Plus from the recent NGINX POODLE attack (CVE-2014-3566) against SSLv3
By Owen GarrettLearn about the great new features in NGINX Plus Release 4 (R4), a fully tested release of the NGINX Plus web server and load balancer from NGINX, Inc.
By Owen GarrettLearn how to apply advanced load balancing techniques using the enhanced features in NGINX Plus
By Owen GarrettLearn why some servers don't achieve their benchmarked performance and how NGINX can transform your real-world performance back to your local benchmarks
By Owen GarrettLearn how to load balance with NGINX & how NGINX Plus adds application load balancing, session persistence & dynamically configurable load-balancing pools.
By Owen Garrett