Today’s web server ecosystem has three big players: IIS, Apache and NGINX. Although only two of them (Apache and, to a lesser extent, NGINX) are cross-platform, it’s increasingly important to be able to work with all three of these servers, because you never know which type of operating system and web server platform you’ll be asked to support.

When building a new application or microservice on AWS, there are several options for handling load balancing in front of the application. In this article, I’ll explain and compare two of the most common and robust options: The built-in AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) or more commonly known as AWS ELB and NGINX’s load balancer.

So you have one or more NGINX instances happily logging to files. Now what? Consolidating all your logs from all your instances using Sumo Logic makes it quick and easy to find trends and errors.