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The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 2)nginx

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If you enjoy these books, you may also enjoy Software Design by Example in Python and Software Design by Example in JavaScript. nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free open source web server written by Igor Sysoev, a Russian software engineer. Since its public launch in 2004, nginx has focused on high performance, high concurrency and low memory usage. Additional features on top of the web server functionality, like load balancing, caching, access and bandwidth control, and the ability to integrate efficiently with a variety of applications, have helped to make nginx a good choice for modern website architectures. Currently nginx is the second most popular open source web server on the Internet. These days the Internet is so widespread and ubiquitous it's hard to imagine it wasn't exactly there, as we know it, a decade ago. It has greatly evolved, from simple HTML producing clickable text, based on NCSA and then on Apache web servers, to an always-on communication medium used by more t

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 2)nginx The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 2) nginx Andrew Alexeev If you enjoy these books, you may also enjoy Software Design by Example in Python and Software Design by Example in JavaScript . nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free open source web server written by Igor Sysoev, a Russian software engineer. Since its public launch in 2004, nginx has focused on high performance, high concurrency and low memory usage. Additional features on top of the web server functionality, like load balancing, caching, access and bandw

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