https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/252459446/F5-NGINX-deal-reflects-mainstream-trend-toward-microservices Nginx generated revenue of $26 million in 2018 DevOps and modern application architectures, including microservices, force traditionally separate network operations and application development teams to collaborate. Their first order of business is usually to mitigate the strain from microservices, which generate heavy "east-west" traffic between application components, on corporate networks designed for hierarchical intermachine "north-south" patterns. "Worlds are colliding," Casemore said. "There's always been a clear demarcation of responsibility between network operations and application teams, but now developers and DevOps teams need visibility and some ability to operate the network." "Nginx basically provides the same services for distributed apps that F5's portfolio provides for traditional e