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NGINX Cookbook

You're reading from   NGINX Cookbook Over 70 recipes for real-world configuration, deployment, and performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466174
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tim Butler Tim Butler
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Get Started 2. Common PHP Scenarios FREE CHAPTER 3. Common Frameworks 4. All About SSLs 5. Logging 6. Rewrites 7. Reverse Proxy 8. Load Balancing 9. Advanced Features 10. Docker Containers 11. Performance Tuning 12. OpenResty 13. NGINX Plus – The Commercial Offering

Introduction

Once you have your NGINX configuration working, you can turn your focus to fine tuning to enhance performance. A few sections of this chapter will focus on delivering increased performance for users, while others will focus on delivering performance enhancements at a server level to allow greater concurrency.

As with any tuning, you need to ensure that you understand the limits first.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
– Donald Knuth, 1974

In the context of NGINX, you need to ensure that you know what the limits are before changing them. Not all changes will necessarily result in performance increases if they don't suit your system or if they're not a current limitation.

On the flip side, optimization of your NGINX server is also critical to ensure that your website or application...

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