NGINX is an open-source, high-performance web and reverse proxy server that supports HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, and IMAP. This book covers all the key features in 1.9.X, from the long-awaited TCP load balancing feature that allows users to load-balance TCP-based applications, to support for upstreams in shared memory, and the implementation of HTTP/2.
Tim Butler
Tim Butler is currently working in the web hosting industry and has nearly 20 years of experience. He currently maintains hyper-converged storage/compute platforms and is an architect of high throughput web logging and monitoring solutions. You can follow him on Twitter using his Twitter handle, @timbutler, where he (infrequently) posts about hosting, virtualization, NGINX, containers, and a few other hobbies.