Optimizing nginx – from Beginner to Expert to Crazy
summary
Practical configuration recipes for nginx as load balancer, reverse proxy and PHP‑FPM gateway, with concrete examples: unix socket vs TCP PHP‑FPM setups, upstream pools with health checks and timeouts, tuned file‑upload limits, and header/body handling. Demonstrates a working lua scripting pipeline that implements single sign‑on, request chaining and dynamic backend selection, shows fallback backends and monitoring logic, and provides copy‑paste config snippets that run and failover in real tests.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00nginx optimization journey
- 4:57nginx configuration basics
- 10:01Performance tuning techniques
- 17:27Dynamic content handling
- 23:33File upload optimizations
- 30:13Memory and resource management
- 35:49Full-text search optimization
- 39:47Crazy nginx configurations
- 43:15Q&A
