Chapter 7. Going Forward with Nginx

In the modern, interconnected constantly changing world, nothing ends with the last pages of a book, including this one. By the time you read this, some of the new features mentioned will have become wildly popular, and some may start their way to being obsolete. Nginx as open source software with a highly devoted team of developers, vibrant community, and a huge growing install base will have hundreds of changes committed and tested. You may wonder whether there is a sure way to keep up with it. Is it needed at all? While the current fashion moves in the direction of mobile-first, cloud-connected, intelligent Internet of things, the underlying protocols and principles remain. HTTP has long moved beyond anything imagined by its inventors, and it is living through a new circle of evolution with the rapid adoption of HTTP/2 after a long and somewhat controversial period of testing in the form of SPDY. Nginx was, and is, there on the frontlines...