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NGINX Demos with Tech Field Day from Sprint 2020



Tech Field Day at NGINX Sprint 2020


This Presentation date is September 16, 2020 at 8:00-10:30.

Presenters: Daniel Edgar, James Jones, Liam Crilly, Libby Meren, Lindsay Shaw, Rick Salsa, Timo Stark, Åsa Persson

Day two of NGINX Sprint 2020 features interactive demos with the Tech Field Day delegate panel. We’ll wrap up with another Field Day discussion.

Note: Register for NGINX Sprint 2020 to see live streaming video of this session! Recoded video will be posted here on Friday, September 18.


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Deploy a Web App on NGINX Unit


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Libby Meren, OSS Product Marketing Manager, and Timo Stark, Professional Services Engineer, demonstrate how NGINX Unit can be used to deploy a dynamic application. In this first demonstration from NGINX Sprint 2020, Timo and Libby build a gallery of planets in a Docker container. The container includes NGINX Unit and WordPress alongside a skeleton API based on node.js. NGINX Unit supports multiple languages, and the demonstration includes php and JavaScript. After this demo, Timo and Libby take questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Libby Meren, Timo Stark

Improve Performance with NGINX Plus


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James Jones, Solutions Architect, continues the NGINX Sprint 2020 web app demo with a focus on improved performance. James adds an NGINX Plus load balancer with microcching to reduce the impact on the Unit server. He also adds the ability for Promethius to access metrics from the environment. During and after this demo, James takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Personnel: James Jones

Secure a Web App with NGINX App Protect


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Daniel Edgar, Project Manager, continues the NGINX Sprint 2020 Space App demo by adding a web application firewall, NGINX App Protect. This high-performance, lightweight WAF is a dynamic model integrated with NGINX Plus. During and after this demo, Daniel takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Daniel Edgar

Add an API with NGINX Controller API Management


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Liam Crilly, Director of Product Management, continues the NGINX Spring 2020 space app demo by publishing the app API for other consumers. He uses NGINX Controller, an API lifecycle management solution for NGINX Plus. During and after this demo, Liam takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Liam Crilly

Make Your Web App Resilient with F5 DNS Cloud Service


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Rick Salsa, Product Manager, continues the NGINX Sprint 2020 space app demo by deploying a global DNS cloud service. The F5 DNS Cloud Service includes DNS Load Balancer which can distribute server load across multiple instances. During and after this demo, James takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Rick Salsa

Monitor a Web App with F5 Beacon


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Åsa Persson, Regional Sales Directir, discusses how to monitor a web application using F5 Beacon. She is joined by Adil Laari, Product Manager, who give an overview of the capabilities of F5 Beacon: App monitoring, user experience monitoring, and actionable insights. Finally, Forrest Crenshaw gives a demonstration of F5 Beacon in action with the space app deployed in this NGINX Sprint 2020 demo series. During and after this demo, the team takes questions from the Tech Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Adil Laari, Forrest Crenshaw, Åsa Persson

NGINX Sprint Space App Demo Discussion


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Now that the NGINX team has demonstrated the various capabilities of NGINX Plus by deploying a “space app” with many features, the Tech Field Day delegates get their turn. They discuss the app, along with their impressions of NGINX Sprint 2020 overall, in this roundtable moderated by Stephen Foskett.

Personnel: Stephen Foskett


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