NGINX Unit is a fully dynamic application server that can serve multiple languages as well as multiple versions of each language. It's dynamic in the sense that you use the RESTful JSON API to make changes to its configuration in memory, without service disruption or configuration reloads. In my presentation at NGINX Conf 2018 in October,…
Continue reading ›Maximizing Python Performance with NGINX, Part 2: Load Balancing and Monitoring
[Editor – This post has been updated to refer to the NGINX Plus API, which replaces and deprecates the separate dynamic configuration module mentioned in the original version of the post.[ Introduction: Using Multiple Servers Part 1 of this two‑part blog series tells you how to maximize Python application server performance with a single‑server implementation and how…
Continue reading ›Maximizing Python Performance with NGINX, Part 1: Web Serving and Caching
Introduction – How NGINX is Used with Python Python is famous for being easy and fun to use, for making software development easier, and for runtime performance that is said to exceed other scripted languages. (Though the latest version of PHP, PHP 7, may give Python a run for its money.) Everyone wants their website and application…
Continue reading ›Real-Time Web Applications with WebSocket and NGINX
In the blog post NGINX as a WebSocket Proxy we discussed using NGINX to proxy WebSocket application servers. In this post we will discuss some of the architecture and infrastructure issues to consider when creating real-time applications with WebSocket, including the components you need and how you can structure your systems. WebSocket Adds Interactivity to HTTP HTTP…
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