For anyone already using nginx in their stack, I don't think these things (being a newcomer, or needing credibility) are a very big concern. Some people are al

For anyone already using nginx in their stack, I don't think these things (being a newcomer, or needing credibility) are a very big concern. Some people are already used to using nginx as a load balancer for HTTP traffic (this new feature adds load balancing for any TCP traffic) so those users won't have much gap to cover. Also this feature was in the nginx+ version, which presumably means it has already been battle-tested by their enterprise customers.