Scalable nginx Configuration

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Covers techniques for building long-lived, maintainable nginx configurations, showing common mistakes and correct vs incorrect approaches. Discusses when to use regular expressions in nginx rules and argues that pragmatic copy‑paste can be preferable to strict DRY for configuration maintainability.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:30Why scalable nginx config matters
3. 10:15How nginx selects location blocks
4. 17:32Copy-paste for maintainable configs
5. 24:25Avoiding regex and if directives
6. 31:49Q&A: return vs rewrite
7. 33:17Q&A: Security and variables
8. 35:45Q&A: SMTP proxy use case
9. 39:00Q&A: Development workflow
10. 40:06Q&A: Web cluster setup
11. 41:52Q&A: Containers and dynamic configs

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