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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Common PHP Scenarios 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

Microcaching

Caching is a great way to speed up performance, but some situations mean that you will be either continually invalidating the content (which means you'll need more server resources) or serving stale content. Neither scenario is ideal, but there's an easy way to get a good compromise between performance and functionality.

With microcaching, you can set the timeout to be as low as one second. While this may not sound like a lot, if you're running a popular site, then trying to dynamically serve 50+ requests per second can easily bring your server to its knees. Instead, microcaching will ensure that the majority of your requests (that is, 49 out of the 50) are served direct from cache, yet will only be 1 second old.

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