Thinking outside of the box with NGINX series - geo command
Using NGINX's geo command to match network blocks and route traffic to different upstreams or apply rate limits.
Thinking outside of the box with NGINX series - split_clients command
Using split_clients to bypass cache for a percentage of requests and direct traffic to different backend versions.
SSL acceleration using NGINX and backend SSL connection identification
Setting X-Forwarded-Proto headers with NGINX proxy_set_header identifies SSL connections to backend servers.
Zero-downtime deployments using NGINX
Configuring NGINX for zero-downtime deployments using upstream blocks and shell scripting.
Persistent backend selection using cookies with NGINX
NGINX maps URL paths to backends using cookies and regular expressions.
Using map for upstream configuration on NGINX
Using NGINX's map directive simplifies upstream configurations by reducing redundant location blocks.
Caching range requests using NGINX at MaxCDN
Using Lua and ngx_lua, ranger normalizes byte-range requests for caching in NGINX.
NGINX dynamically configured mass virtual hosting
Configuring NGINX for dynamic mass virtual hosting using regular expressions in server_name directives.
NGINX passive cache invalidation
Implementing passive cache invalidation in NGINX using Lua and a shared dictionary queue.
NGINX syslog-ing without breaking the bank or patching the code
Configuring NGINX to log to syslog using a FIFO and syslog-ng.
