Architecting the Intellified Future, with NGINX | Talking Open Source ft. Laurent Petroque

In this episode, Sachin Dabir speaks with Laurent Petroque, APJ’s senior solution engineering leader, about how Nginx continues to shape the modern application landscape. From its open-source roots to powering today’s intelligent, adaptive, and high-performance architectures,
Nginx remains central to how enterprises deliver experiences at scale.

Together, they explore how application delivery is evolving in the era of AI — where architectures are no longer just cloud-native, but intellified. The conversation dives into real-world scenarios, from optimizing microservices and APIs to enabling observability, security, and automation at the edge.

If you’re a solution architect, platform engineer, or technology leader looking to understand what makes Nginx still indispensable in 2025 and beyond, this discussion offers both insight and inspiration.

0:00 - Introduction
3:36 - Laurent’s 20-Year Journey with F5
7:00 - The Evolution of NGINX
12:37 - NGINX Fits in Modern Cloud Architecture
20:32 - Inside NGINX’s Event-Driven Architecture
22:56 - Where NGINX Powers the Modern Web
35:27 - Observability with NGINX + OpenTelemetry
40:27 - The Versatility of NGINX — More Than a Proxy
43:47 - Managing Scale with NGINX Instance Manager
45:46 - Future Insights — AI, Traffic & Automation
50:00 - Final Thoughts

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