NGINX Cookbook, Part 1

Advanced Recipes for High Performance Load Balancing

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This is the first of three installments of NGINX Cookbook. This book is about NGINX the web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. This installment focuses mostly on the load balancing aspect and the advanced features around load balancing, as well as some information around HTTP caching. The book touches on NGINX Plus, the licensed version of NGINX which provides many advanced features, such as a real-time monitoring dashboard and JSON feed, the ability to add servers to a pool of application servers with an API call, and active health checks with an expected response. The following chapters are written for an audience that has some understanding of NGINX, modern web architectures such as n-tier or microservice designs, and common web protocols such as TCP, UDP, and HTTP.

The author wrote this book because they believe in NGINX as the strongest web server, proxy, and load balancer available. They also believe in NGINX's vision as a company. When the author heard Owen Garrett, head of products at NGINX, Inc. explain that the core of the NGINX system would continue to be developed and open source, they knew NGINX, Inc. was good for the community, leading the World Wide Web with one of the most powerful software technologies to serve a vast number of use cases.

This book is published as open-access, which means it is freely available to read, download, and share without restrictions.

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