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F5, Inc.
Company blog · nginx.com/blogwebsystems
F5, Inc. is the company blog at nginx.com, writing about web and systems. Since 2011, 334 different Hacker News readers have linked it 406 times, most often “Nginx 'If' is Evil”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Most-linked posts?
- Nginx 'If' is Evil12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2015-11-23
- Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-08-05
- Inside Nginx: How We Designed for Performance Scale6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-03-05
- NGINX Amplify5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-11-07
- Nginx Rate Limiting5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-08-07
- A Technology Preview of Nginx Support for QUIC and HTTP/35 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-06-10
- HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-10-10
- Dynamic Reconfiguration with NGINX Plus4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-11-01
- /blog/how-nginx-plans-to-support-http2/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-03-03
- Announcing NGINX Plus R104 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-08-28
What Hacker News says?
The blog post makes it seem like the problem was in an nginx module. Looking at the docs [1] it looks like that's a C API; as far as I know writing shared libraries in golang for a C caller isn't really a thing (because the runtime needs to exist). Rust might have better luck here (I _think_ there have been attempts to get rust code loaded by not-rust code), but I haven't kept track. [1] https://www.nginx.com/resour…
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on “Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory”Submitted Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx as a story · 1384 points
HN discussionThis motivated me to learn a little bit about nginx architecture. This article is nice: https://www.nginx.com/blog/inside-nginx-how-we-designed-for-... Why are the nginx workers implemented as processes sharing memory, rather than threads? Is that so they can have different privileges in the Linux permissions/ownership model? Is it easy to create multiple processes sharing memory in Linux? How do I go about doing th…
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on “Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx”Submitted Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks as a story · 1057 points
HN discussion> On the other hand, the unreadable weird-ass pseudo-XML configuration files If I have one gripe about NGINX it's that its configuration is a still-half-baked DSL that has quirks you wouldn't expect and when they error you don't get great feedback. Examples: You can have an if clause, but no else attached. You can't have an if clause with multiple conditions. Finally, "if [might be] evil." 1 You end up writing a bun…
Comment linking /resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifisevil/
on “Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx”Submitted Nginx Unit as a story · 680 points
HN discussionhttps://www.nginx.com/blog/quic-http3-support-openssl-nginx/ I know there are other mentions - it's been in the commercial product since R30, hence the CVE.
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on “Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork”Submitted Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes as a story · 417 points
HN discussionthe syntax of nginx configs might not be hard, but its semantics (particularly [0]) is eldritch evil I don't relish dealing with [0] https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifis...
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on “Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork”Submitted The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots as a story · 388 points
HN discussionOne of the most heavily used Russian software projects on the internet https://www.nginx.com/blog/do-svidaniya-igor-thank-you-for-n... but it's only marginally more modern than Apache httpd. In light of recently announced nginx memory-safety vulnerabilities I'd suggest migrating to Caddy https://caddyserver.com/
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on “Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork”Submitted Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx as a story · 384 points
HN discussionCould this simply be about losing hardware sales to this newfangled open source? A big F5 rig used to go for $175k, vs $30k-sh for an nginx on plain hardware. https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-vs-f5-big-ip-a-price-p...
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on “Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks”Submitted Nginx now supports Websockets as a story · 358 points
HN discussionThey are not charging me for storage, they are putting ads on my videos with no way to opt-out. Ads of the like that I have _NO_ desire to be affiliated with, ads for pollutants like "weed killers" and "insecticides". I don't care if they use fancy algorithms for transcoding (CPU cycles) or bandwidth costs, or storage, that was the deal. I ship to them and they host it without ads. I did this for the "promise" of ne…
Comment linking /blog/video-streaming-for-remote-learning-with-nginx/
on “YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them”Submitted Nginx Plus as a story · 340 points
HN discussionUltimately it depends on your use case and how much tuning/schema design/explicit management you are willing to do. My team lead did a talk at NGINX Conf 2017 which touched on how we tuned Postgres to handle 1 Billion metrics per day for NGINX Amplify ( https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-amplify/ ). I would link it, but it seems it hasn't been published by our Conf team yet. We did this on 9.4 so the changes outli…
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on “New in PostgreSQL 10”Submitted Launching NginScript as a story · 332 points
HN discussionIt's not as impossible as it sounds. There are many JS engines which are extremely small compared to the big guys used in browsers. Most of them tend to grab a subset of the language and implement that. For example, the creators of nginx created their own specialized engine called nginScript that runs JS for their stuff https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/nginScript/ There is even a javascript interpreter written i…
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on “Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source”Submitted How We Designed for Performance and Scale as a story · 293 points
HN discussionNginx sells proprietary software https://www.nginx.com/pricing/ But now, it is own by F5 so I don't think it will be an issue.
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on “Tell HN: If You Are in Russia”Submitted Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015) as a story · 249 points
HN discussionAsync sendfile is also an advantage for FreeBSD. It is specific to FreeBSD. It allows an nginx worker to send from a file that's cold on disk without blocking, and without resorting to threadpools using a thread-per-file. The gist is that the sendfile() call stages the pages waiting to be read in the socket buffer, and marks the mbufs with M_NOTREADY (so they cannot be sent by TCP). When the disk read completes, a s…
Comment linking /blog/nginx-and-netflix-contribute-new-sendfile2-to-freebsd/
on “Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]”Submitted Adopting Microservices at Netflix: Lessons for Architectural Design as a story · 207 points
HN discussionThere's also a blog post introducing the project: https://www.nginx.com/blog/introducing-nginx-application-pla...
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on “Nginx Unit”Submitted Mitigating DoS Attacks with Nginx as a story · 205 points
HN discussionI'm having a hard time seeing what niche this fills. It seems to be both a process manager and TCP proxy. What am I missing here? What makes this better than, for example, using docker-compose? I think a "how it works" or "design doc" would be really helpful. That said, the source files do make for pleasant reading. The nginx team has always set a strong example for what good C programming looks like. EDIT: Their bl…
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on “Nginx Unit”Submitted A Technology Preview of Nginx Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 as a story · 197 points
HN discussionEverything in the Plus category. https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/#compare-versions
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on “Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust”Submitted Adopting Microservices at Netflix as a story · 178 points
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