Today, we’re excited to share the first native support for gRPC traffic, released in NGINX Open Source 1.13.10. NGINX Plus Release 15 includes gRPC support as well as the support for HTTP/2 server push introduced in NGINX 1.13.9. NGINX can already proxy gRPC TCP connections. With this new capability, you can terminate, inspect, and route gRPC method calls. You can use it to: Publish a gRPC service

Smart and Efficient Byte-Range Caching with NGINX & NGINX Plus When correctly deployed, caching is one of the quickest ways to accelerate web content. Not only does caching place content closer to the end user (thus reducing latency), it also reduces the number of requests to the upstream origin server, resulting in greater capacity and lower bandwidth costs. The availability of globally distribut

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NGINX leads the pack in web performance, and it’s all due to the way the software is designed. Whereas many web servers and application servers use a simple threaded or process‑based architecture, NGINX stands out with a sophisticated event‑driven architecture that enables it to scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections on modern hardware. The Inside NGINX infographic drills down fr