- Chapter 1: The Hidden Power in Your Web Server
- 1.1 How OCSP Stapling Makes Browsers Trust You Faster
- 1.2 One SSL Config to Rule All Your Subdomains
- 1.3 Mutual TLS Without the Headache
- 1.4 Serve Any Subdomain Without Touching Your Config
- 1.5 The SSL Best Practices That Save You Later
- Chapter 2: Traffic Isn’t Dumb So Your Server Shouldn’t Be
- 2.1 Handling Real-Time Connections
- 2.2 Reverse Proxies That Outlive Their Upstreams
- 2.3 Let Your API Fail Gracefully with Static Fallbacks
- 2.4 Shift Traffic Gradually with Blue-Green Upstreams
- 2.5 An API Gateway That Knows Who It’s Talking To
- 2.6 Keep Your Gateway Safe and Sane
- Chapter 3: The Art of Serving Less, Faster
- 3.1 Serve Smaller Pages Without Breaking the Browser
- 3.2 Dynamic Images Without Changing Your Markup
- 3.3 Speed Up WordPress Using Just NGINX
- 3.4 The Invisible CDN Trick Behind Every Display Pic
- 3.5 Pre-Warm Your Cache Like You Mean It
- 3.6 Static Performance That Holds Under Load
- Epilogue
Nginx by Example Vol. 1
From problem to pattern to production
A field manual for engineers who never want to Google configs again.
A collection of NGINX configurations that you’d actually use
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A field manual for engineers who never want to Google configs again.
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NGINX by Example is a field manual for engineers who never want to Google configs again.
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- WordPress FastCGI cache (no plugin)
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