NGINX Open Source: Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead
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NGINX Open Source: Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead
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Today we announced the availability of NGINX Plus Release 6 (R6). With this milestone event in our commercial business, I thought it would be a good time to reflect back on what we have accomplished as a community and to address where we are taking NGINX from here.
The last 12 months have been a hectic time at NGINX. We have had exceptional growth as a project, as a development team, and as a company. The number of sites using our software has grown enormously, and NGINX is now the most commonly-used web front end for the 10,000 busiest sites on the Internet. We now count some of the most innovative developers in the world as users and as contributors — from disruptive new businesses like Airbnb to Netflix to Uber. NGINX open source has benefited from well over 100 new features and updates, and NGINX Plus has matured into a highly capable application delivery platform.
You may already have read our plan to support HTTP/2 in NGINX Open Source. We appreciate how important it is to our users that we continue to support the innovations that others are making in our space, and our HTTP/2 support will of course build on the successful SPDY implementation that has been used by a number of sites.
The Role of NGINX Plus
People sometimes ask about NGINX Plus, and how that relates to NGINX Open Source. NGINX Plus was born from the desire to create a commercial offering that would extend the software’s capabilities and help fund the continued development of NGINX Open Source.
The two products have a lot of overlap; in fact, it’s possible to implement much of the additional functionality in Plus using various open source third party modules. We’re completely comfortable with that. If users have the expertise, patience and time commitment required to maintain their own custom build of NGINX for comprehensive application delivery, then NGINX Plus is clearly not for them. However, if maintaining and supporting an application delivery platform is not your core competency or if you would prefer your technical resources directed at applications that more directly further your business, we’re here with NGINX Plus and a range of services to do that for you.
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