API blog posts

Programmability is the only way control survives at AI scale

Learn why data and control plane programmability are crucial for scaling and securing AI-driven systems, ensuring real-time control in a fast-changing environment.

Multicloud chaos ends at the Equinix Edge with F5 Distributed Cloud CE

Simplify multicloud security with Equinix and F5 Distributed Cloud CE. Centralize your perimeter, reduce costs, and enhance performance with edge-driven WAAP.

How AI inference changes application delivery

Learn how AI inference reshapes application delivery by redefining performance, availability, and reliability, and why traditional approaches no longer suffice.

The influence of inference: APIs, DPUs, and context chaos

Managing context windows in AI isn’t magic. It’s architecture.

Discover why AI app builders must manage context, memory, and infrastructure while evolving delivery and security to prevent drift, latency, and prompt attacks.

When Complexity Becomes the Enemy: How Operational Workflow Sprawl Threatens Performance and Delivery

Explore how operational workflow complexity threatens uptime, resilience, and delivery, and why simplifying processes is key to modern app infrastructure.

What is the Application Delivery Top 10?

F5 aims to help organizations address challenges in delivering and securing applications, APIs, and generative AI with the Application Delivery Top 10 list.

The Death of the ADC has Been Largely Exaggerated

As complexity increases, organizations need a modern application delivery controller that addresses their most common delivery and security challenges.

Use Infrastructure as Code to Deploy F5 NGINX Management Suite

Streamline app and API deployment in NGINX Management Suite with the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) GitHub repository, Packer, and Terraform.

Multi-Cloud API Security with NGINX and F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP

Navigate the complexity of distributed environments and securely deliver APIs at scale with this three-tier approach to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

Tutorial: Deliver and Secure GraphQL APIs with F5 NGINX

Learn how to add advanced threat protection to your GraphQL APIs with the NGINX Management Suite Security Monitoring module, NGINX App Protect WAF, and more.

Find and Fix API Endpoint Issues with Akita’s NGINX Plus Certified Module

Identify and fix problems with your API endpoints faster with a new NGINX Plus Certified Module for API observability from Akita Software.

Why the API Developer Experience Matters

The API developer experience is one of the most important factors in determining the overall success of an API. Learn the four important principles that lead to great experiences.

NGINX Tutorial: Protect Kubernetes APIs with Rate Limiting

Popular apps can be vulnerable to traffic surges that overwhelm the APIs and cause cascade failures. In this tutorial, Daniele Polencic of learnk8s demonstrates how to use multiple NGINX Ingress Contr...

Exposing APIs in Kubernetes

Unit 2 of Microservices March 2022 is all about how to expose your APIs in Kubernetes. Here are links to the resources you need: the livestream taking place on March 14, blogs and other prep resources...

NGINX App Protect Brings Security to the API Ecosystem

A “security as code” approach centered around NGINX App Protect is key to protecting your APIs. Integrate non‑disruptive security controls into your automation and CI/CD processes so that app security...

Securing gRPC APIs with NGINX App Protect

NGINX App Protect secures gRPC APIs by detecting malicious data in message headers and payloads, nested and complex data structures included. Define security policies in gRPC IDL files, and NGINX App ...

Batching API Requests with NGINX Plus and the NGINX JavaScript Module

The NGINX JavaScript module released with NGINX Plus R15 supports subrequests, adding a whole new class of use cases for NGINX Plus. This complete example also uses the NGINX Plus API and Key-Value mo...

Announcing NGINX Plus R8

NGINX Plus Release 8 includes support for OAuth 2.0 processing, production-ready HTTP/2, persistent dynamic reconfiguration of upstream servers, & more.

Announcing NGINX Plus Release 5

Learn 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

Using NGINX and NGINX Plus with Node.js and Socket.IO, the WebSocket API

Learn how to use NGINX and NGINX Plus to proxy applications built on Node.js and Socket.IO, a popular WebSocket API