System administration

System administration is the art of combining hardware and software together so that the sum is much more valuable than all of the parts. If you prefer more down-to-earth definitions, system administration is the operations specialist responsible for the technical components of business processes or even more to the point, web servers hosting websites, web applications, and, increasingly, the backend API endpoints. As the industry grew, the difference between software engineering and system administration became more important, and most modern businesses have separate roles for these jobs. There is a reverse trend of the so-called DevOps movement, by the way. DevOps engineers combine the administration (or -ops) skills with software development.

This book is mainly for Nginx administrators who work alongside separate development teams, and it is very natural to want to become better and more valuable at this job. There are several vast fields of knowledge that will...