Nginx

Nginx cookbook, Butler T., 2017.

Preface.

NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly. Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features. By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have.

Nginx HTTP Server, Nedelcu C., 2015.

Preface.

It is a well-known fact that the market for web servers has a long-established leader: Apache. According to recent surveys conducted in October 2015, almost 35 percent of the World Wide Web is served by this twenty-year old open source application. However, the same reports reveal the rise of a new competitor in the past few years: Nginx, a lightweight HTTP server originating from Russia and pronounced "engine x". What has caused so many server administrators to switch to Nginx since the beginning of the 2009? Is this tiny piece of software mature enough to run a high-traffic website?

Nginx high performance, Sharma R., 2015.

Preface.

NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers on the Internet. The server is often named when one is looking to deliver better performance with the same hardware. The server has a state-of-the-art event-based architecture, which enables it to deliver hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections on standard hardware. As a first step, adopting NGINX leads to better results. However, as with any piece of software, NGINX can also be optimized to serve content faster. This book provides ways to optimize NGINX for last-mile performance. It also aims to provide insights into the NGINX architecture for you to understand it better. The book is not an NGINX learning book and is intended for people with some experience with NGINX. The book only explains those parts of the NGINX configuration that have an impact on performance. Besides NGINX optimization, the book also talks about the process of benchmarking and about baselines to quantify the gains made. This is an end-to-end book that helps you to tweak the NGINX server's performance.

Nginx From Beginner to Pro, Soni R., 2016.

HTTP Basics.

HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. Since the dawn of the Internet, HTTP has been playing a key role in delivering the content worldwide. In simple terms, you can consider HTTP as a set of rules for transferring files. If you notice carefully while browsing a website, you will find that there are files (like images, text, video, etc.) that display in your browser directly, while others (like zip, rar, etc.) get downloaded. Think about it for a second: why does one file get downloaded, while others get rendered or played in the browser directly? The answer is simply because of how the web server and web client (typically your web browser) are interacting behind the scenes. You can think of HTTP as a language in which the web server and a web client communicates. As a website user, you are simply consuming the visual elements that the website creators planned for you. Hence, unless you are curious, you will hardly notice the underlying communication. It is almost like using a refrigerator. You just need to know that it is used to preserve your food by keeping it cold and what goes in normal comes out chilled. You would hardly ever bother about how it actually works.