“Igor has chosen to step back from NGINX and F5 in order to spend more time with his friends and family”
I wonder what this is really about.
Either way Nginx is the reason myself and many others were able to survive without raising venture capital because we didn’t need a massive horizontal cluster of Apache servers consuming 20 to 100Mb per concurrent connection. Personally I scaled above 100k current connections on a single front end nginx box with 6 Apache application servers on the back end in 2007 thanks to Igor’s incredible work. He really has made a massive contribution to the fundamental plumbing of the Web and should be recognized for it.
Maybe just that? That's pretty much what retirement is about, also. Doesn't say that Igor won't work on personal or even non-personal projects at all, just that more time will be available for, well, friends and family.
It is standard resignation speak. It’s the same thing I told HR to tell my team when I decided it was time to leave, because it is what everyone else says when they resign.
I left due to burnout and failed negotiations. I did share the burnout with my team individually.
Perhaps. However, I do find it slightly 'off' that his departure is announced in the form of an article, and not a personal statement in which he would have more or less unavoidably had to have elaborated on the reasons for choosing this moment to depart.
At least in my personal experience, when this happens to a senior leader it's usually because they had been informed by others that they WOULD be resigning.
I think it's usually true. But that's what makes it so useful to people casting around for something to cover for reasons that might be less savory or less pleasant. And that resulting contrast means we really notice it in high-profile cases as an excuse, making it almost a cliche.
I think he was detained recently by the police because there is a claim that he started Nginx while employed at another company. Seems like some sort of shakedown by politically connected people.
I wonder what this is really about.
Either way Nginx is the reason myself and many others were able to survive without raising venture capital because we didn’t need a massive horizontal cluster of Apache servers consuming 20 to 100Mb per concurrent connection. Personally I scaled above 100k current connections on a single front end nginx box with 6 Apache application servers on the back end in 2007 thanks to Igor’s incredible work. He really has made a massive contribution to the fundamental plumbing of the Web and should be recognized for it.