> Nginx Plus seems like they took a lot of the obvious feature upgrades, some which look fairly easy (remove cached item) and put them in a pay wall.
I had a chat during an interview with folks from the Nginx team recently and definitely got the impression they are putting a lot more thought into the separation of Plus than this. One of the key features is the ability to add/remove backends at runtime, as well as, IIRC, some failover capability that makes Nginx Plus a potential competitor for things like F5.
Disclaimer: I am not associated with Nginx, except that I shook some folks hands, and I might have remembered something wrong. They went out of their way to illustrate to me, and I think they did, that Nginx Plus is more than just 'open core'.
If you read the prior article, linked in this one, the original author of Nginx is allowed to expound on this himself. An experienced Ops team can assemble a number of open-source components and custom code to accomplish some of the more advanced functionality in Nginx Plus, but I think it's saving more than a couple hours of customization. :)
> If you read the prior article, linked in this one, the original author of Nginx is allowed to expound on this himself. An experienced Ops team can assemble a number of open-source components and custom code to accomplish some of the more advanced functionality in Nginx Plus, but I think it's saving more than a couple hours of customization. :)
Can you elaborate? I'm able to do almost everything with haproxy, including hot reloads, client-based SOA, frontend/backend traffic. I'm not sure what Nginx Plus gets me on top of that.
I had a chat during an interview with folks from the Nginx team recently and definitely got the impression they are putting a lot more thought into the separation of Plus than this. One of the key features is the ability to add/remove backends at runtime, as well as, IIRC, some failover capability that makes Nginx Plus a potential competitor for things like F5.
Disclaimer: I am not associated with Nginx, except that I shook some folks hands, and I might have remembered something wrong. They went out of their way to illustrate to me, and I think they did, that Nginx Plus is more than just 'open core'.
If you read the prior article, linked in this one, the original author of Nginx is allowed to expound on this himself. An experienced Ops team can assemble a number of open-source components and custom code to accomplish some of the more advanced functionality in Nginx Plus, but I think it's saving more than a couple hours of customization. :)