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		slt2021 on Sept 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B Same with Nginx being acquired by F5 Networks. Nginx really ate their lunch and were rewarded handsomely for that

erikpukinskis on Sept 16, 2022 [–]

How was Nginx affecting F5’s business?

slt2021 on Sept 16, 2022 | [–]

nginx is widely used as a free and opensource load balancer for web apps, which is bread and butter of F5's BIG-IP business..

why buy big hardware appliance as a load balancer, if a VM with nginx can do the same trick?

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