The key‑value store feature was introduced in NGINX Plus Release 13 for HTTP and extended to TCP and UDP in Release 14. With key‑value stores, you can customize how NGINX Plus handles traffic, based on all sorts of criteria, without needing to reload the configuration or restart NGINX Plus. Editor – In NGINX Plus R16 and later, key‑value stores…
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One of the most useful, but often misunderstood and misconfigured, features of NGINX is rate limiting. It allows you to limit the amount of HTTP requests a user can make in a given period of time. A request can be as simple as a GET request for the homepage of a website or a POST…
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