For that money you can get IBM datapower.
Which is an all in one very powerful solution... With near wire speed transfer.
I don't know why I should get that?
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Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
#32I 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.
On my case that's the opposite, I've almost never heard people pronouncing the official way and always heard "n-jinks", that's how I pronounce it myself. I know about the rationals of the official pronunciation but never got used to it.
Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
#33Wallarm looks like a fairly good WAF, and focused on developers / DevOps. We ( https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com ) have the same focus, but are focused on helping you find and fix the vulnerabilities rather than cloaking them / trying to catch them being exploited in real-time. "Detect anomalies and block attacks with no latency" seems hard to believe - minimal latency, maybe, but none? On the other hand, good luck to…
http://modsecurity.org/ is an open source option with free and commercial rules. I remember reading that CloudFlare used ModSecurity at one point and then moved to their own WAF.
Yup! We actually generate ModSecurity rules as well - it's a pretty great WAF, provided you use good rules.
Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
#34I 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.
To be fair, this is due to the horrible branding on NginX's part. Nearly every non-technical person I know has pronounced it njinks, because using 'n' phonetically as 'en' is not exactly commonplace. Watching our PM get to their name in a story and pause for a few seconds and just say "that word" instead should give you some idea of how counter-intuitive it is. You don't have to work hard to parse good branding.
And it's totally understandable in day-to-day conversation if somebody gets it wrong. But if you're making a marketing video, maybe check that you're pronouncing the words correctly?
Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
#35I really like this idea and I've started using Wallarm. - Integration is amazingly easy if you use nginx... basically an apt-get. - Unlike most security packages that just block certain ports or apply predefined rules, Wallarm feels like I have a dev-ops team looking at traffic patterns 24/7. They're always learning and they identify when things seem irregular. This is definitely the next level of network security
Hmm, care to elaborate? Typically HN comments provide details where possible but your comment reads very heavily like marketing speak (so much so I clicked your profile to make sure you weren't a new user registered today). Basically:
> Integration is amazingly easy if you use nginx... basically an apt-get.
What about the Wallarm Cloud?
> Unlike most security packages that just block certain ports or apply predefined rules, Wallarm feels like I have a dev-ops team looking at traffic patterns 24/7. They're always learning and they identify when things seem irregular.
What exactly does this mean? Are you implying that Wallarm uses machine learning and what criteria / data would it use in such a case? Alternatively is this referencing the Wallarm Cloud?
Typically infrastructure pieces are very, very well defined in what they do as they're critical (if it's too slow or not working correctly then you're business goes too slow or stops). If you have specifics of any of your claims it would be great to read.
Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
#36One may also want to see NAXSI [0]. NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX. [0] https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi
I see the primary 'Advisor' to Wallarm is the primary author of Naxsi, so perhaps this is a commercialization of the Naxsi firewall product.
Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
#37I 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.
> jif not gif
2/10 troll, try harder.
Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
#38I 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.
Might be due to the fact that for lots of ESL speakers, the "ine" in "engine" makes little sense when you consider "quine", "spine", "spline", "brine", etc. The cognitive load to recognize that nginx is really engine-x is that much bigger. As I like to say, "Give someone a ghoti, he can speak English for a day, tell them how to ghoti, and they can speak English for a lifetime".
'gh' pronounced 'f' is always word-final, and 'ti' pronounced 'sh' is always word-medial. "ghoti" is correctly pronounced "goaty".
Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
#39Isn't show HN meant for personal projects rather than companies?
Re: Show HN: Wallarm – Protect your web apps or APIs with fast Nginx-based instances
#40Hey guys, Stepan and Ivan, co-founders here. Thanks for all the feedback! Answering all of this now.