Killing the Reverse Proxy from the Inside: the Evolution of NGINX...
Talkat CloudOpen @ Open Source Summit Europe 2022 · on Wednesday, 2022-09-14· at 16:40· Liffey Meeting Room 1 (Level 1), Convention Centre Dublin, Spencer Dock, N Wall Quay, North Wall Dublin 1, D01 T1·
summary
NGINX Unit is a single daemon runtime that runs application code natively (Python, Java, PHP, Node, Go), exposes a JSON config API over a Unix socket or HTTP and performs zero‑downtime reconfiguration while spawning and scaling worker processes. It ships since 2018 with 28+ releases, supports TLS termination with in‑memory context passing, Linux namespaces/cgroups for isolation, and lets routes match on URI, headers, cookies or query params. Unit uses JSON over an HTTP API and manages apps and routing inside one server.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 8:04How NGINX plays chess
- 11:25Evolution of reverse proxy to service proxy
- 14:22Load Balancer + Service Proxy
- 16:46Stop defining application behaviour in multiple places
- 19:26The vision for Unit
- 20:31How Unit plays chess
- 21:19How Unit plays more than chess
- 35:34Simplifying the application stack
- 35:59Why you should use Unit?
- 37:17Get started with NGINX Unit
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