Recently, I wrote about the dynamic resolution of upstream servers in nginx which was achieved by quite an intrusive patch to the core nginx module. The patch was invented a while ago and was working very well up until recent nginx versions were released.

With the release of nginx 1 … read time 9 min.

UPDATE: This approach was superseded by the proxying through systemd-socket-proxyd approach.

Many of my clients are running application stacks consisting of nginx plus some kind of scripting engine behind it (be it PHP, Ruby, or something else).

The architecture I designed for this kind of workload involves at least two … read time 1 min.