With the release of the Nginx 1.9.0 Web server, Nginx has taken TCP load-balancing capabilities from its commercial Nginx Plus product and fitted it to the company’s open source technology.

TCP load balancing improves failover consistency among worker processes, according to Nginx. The feature already has appeared in the commercial Nginx 5 and 6 products.

Nginx acknowledges TCP load-balancing as a back-end plumbing feature but stresses its importance. “This plumbing allows the applications to scale to huge amounts of traffic,” said Owen Garrett, Nginx head of product, in an interview “It gives visibility and control over those types of traffic so that you can manage the application more effectively.” Reliability also is provided, with the application maintained without end users being interrupted.

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