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 enterprise apps,"
There's been a realization that as people scale these environments for production runtime and scale, the network really comes into play."
"Even if you want to adopt Istio as an enterprise, you still require most of the components that are included in Nginx already to complete your distributed microservices app architecture,"
"[F5] needs to address both a distributed model for technical architecture and a buying center and influencer challenge," he said. "Networking ultimately needs to be closer to applications, within [Kubernetes] pods."
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 enterprise apps,"
There's been a realization that as people scale these environments for production runtime and scale, the network really comes into play."
"Even if you want to adopt Istio as an enterprise, you still require most of the components that are included in Nginx already to complete your distributed microservices app architecture,"
"[F5] needs to address both a distributed model for technical architecture and a buying center and influencer challenge," he said. "Networking ultimately needs to be closer to applications, within [Kubernetes] pods."
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