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Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances

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Post by stepan_ » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 3:55 PM UTC

Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
wallarm.com

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 4:25 PM UTC

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Post by jxcl » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 4:27 PM UTC

I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.

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Post by cmdrfred » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 4:30 PM UTC

jxcl wrote: post #3

I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.

I've only ever seen it written, how do you pronounce it?

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Post by j_s » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 4:31 PM UTC

cmdrfred wrote: post #4

jxcl wrote: post #3

I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.

I've only ever seen it written, how do you pronounce it?

engine-x, right? (as explained on their home page)

http://nginx.org/en/

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Post by nilved » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 4:31 PM UTC

cmdrfred wrote: post #4

jxcl wrote: post #3

I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.

I've only ever seen it written, how do you pronounce it?

The de facto and possibly de jure pronunciation is engine-ex.

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Post by aroch » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 4:31 PM UTC

jxcl wrote: post #3

I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.

I mean, I know it's pronounced like engine-ex (just like it's Oh-Ess Ten, not Oh-Ess-Ex, or jif not gif), but when I'm just reading the word to myself it comes out n-jinks because fewer syllables.

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Post by cmdrfred » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 4:32 PM UTC

nilved wrote: post #6

cmdrfred wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've only ever seen it written, how do you pronounce it?

The de facto and possibly de jure pronunciation is engine-ex.

Thank you. It's been n-jinx in my head for about 5 years now.

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Post by sz4kerto » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 4:34 PM UTC

jxcl wrote: post #3

I have never heard someone pronounce nginx "n-jinks" before like they did in their video. It's a minor thing, but it hurts their credibility in my eyes.

I have heard this many times, mostly from non-native English people. I don't see any problem with that. Also we tend to say 'oh-ess-eks'. :D

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Post by idank » Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 4:36 PM UTC

TLDR: proxy your traffic through a locally installed secret blackbox, after which it is "100% protected".

Not found on the website: non-buzzwordy description of how this really works and what makes it better than the other gazillion security products. Show me an example of an attack you stopped. I realize the website isn't selling to engineers, but still.