Chris Akker

Feb 15, 2024 | nginx.com | Chris Akker |Meghan Williams

About F5 NGINX F5, Inc. is the company behind NGINX, the popular open source project. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Together with F5, our combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer. Learn more at nginx.com or join the conversation by following @nginx on Twitter.

Aug 22, 2023 | nginx.com | Chris Akker |Steve Wagner |Gabrielle Jacobs

You are a modern app developer. You use a collection of open source and maybe some commercial tools to write, test, deploy, and manage new apps and containers. You’ve chosen Kubernetes to run these containers and pods in development, test, staging, and production environments. You’ve bought into the architectures and concepts of microservices, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and other modern industry standards. On this journey, you’ve discovered that Kubernetes is indeed powerful.

Feb 28, 2023 | nginx.com | Gabrielle Jacobs |Chris Akker

Creating and managing a robust Kubernetes environment demands smooth collaboration between your Network and Application teams. But their priorities and working styles are usually quite different, leading to conflicts with potentially serious consequences – slow app development, delayed deployment, and even network downtime. Only the success of both teams, working towards a common goal, can ensure today’s modern applications are delivered on time with proper security and scalability.