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There is no news other than this individual post. I wish he could describe it more. It says it is free but where is the github page for it?
"I don't always git clone, but when I do, it's hg clone"
> Unfortunately, some new non-technical management at F5 recently decided that they know better how to run open source projects. In particular, they decided to interfere with security policy nginx uses for years, ignoring both the policy and developers’ position. Ah, I completely forgot F5 was involved in this, probably most of everyone else and F5 gets no money from this. Shouldn't matter to them, do they even have…
The last two companies I've worked for have paid for Nginx+ since software LB is all we really need. Handling a few thousand RPS is nothing to nginx, and doesn't require fancy hardware. That said, it replaced Kemp load balancers, which it seems is the next biggest competitor in the hardware load balancer appliance space.
Is called "rage-fork" perhaps this. So proposed title: nginx dev rage-forks over security disagreement with boss company But then perhaps he also has every right to do it, even though AFAIR the original author was somebody else.
Rage-fork doesn’t show up anywhere in their announcement, nor does it read like they’re doing something specifically out of rage. Everyone has a right to forking the project. Only time will tell if they get critical mass of developers to keep it going.
That said, I’m not sure how much leg he has to stand on for using the word nginx itself in the new product’s name and domain…
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Why does the identity of the original author matter here?
In my opinion the original author did a really good job, so I found it interesting to know where and whether he might continue his vision. Edit: I see now from the hg history that Igor hasn't been coding on Nginx for a decade actually.
As a sidenote I believe the people who start projects that they themselves run in excellent manner, should be praised, supported, noted and there is nothing more for their identities to matter. It very much matters some particular person with weird nick burntsushi created this wonderful tool rg, and kept growing it for long time. Besides, I can bet for projects such as Cosmopolitan C, it absolutely matters that jart started/did it.
There is no news other than this individual post. I wish he could describe it more. It says it is free but where is the github page for it?
There's a world of software out there that's not on github or using git. "I don't always git clone, but when I do, it's hg clone"
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The last two companies I've worked for have paid for Nginx+ since software LB is all we really need. Handling a few thousand RPS is nothing to nginx, and doesn't require fancy hardware. That said, it replaced Kemp load balancers, which it seems is the next biggest competitor in the hardware load balancer appliance space.
The world has moved on in the sense that "good enough" and cloud eats into their balance sheets I'm sure, but there's loads and loads of banks and legacy enterprises that maintain their ivory tower data centers and there's nothing to replace these with AFAIK. Google has Maglev, AWS perhaps something similar, MS no idea, everyone else just buys F5 or doesn't need it.
> Unfortunately, some new non-technical management at F5 recently decided that they know better how to run open source projects. In particular, they decided to interfere with security policy nginx uses for years, ignoring both the policy and developers’ position. Ah, I completely forgot F5 was involved in this, probably most of everyone else and F5 gets no money from this. Shouldn't matter to them, do they even have…
HAProxy is an enterprise load balancer that's available through Red Hat or other OSS Vendor. Nginx is just so easy to configure...
Caddy seems like a wonderful alternative that does load balancing and static file serving but has wild config file formats for people coming from Apache/Nginx-land.