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I thoroughly appreciate how the majority of the article doesn't even go into the nginx config whereas most of the internet would discuss a result of the search query "optimized nginx config". Much [for me] to learn and much appreciated, Alexey.

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One of my more popular blog posts is exactly about how to "optimise" nginx for high traffic loads and the gist of it is pretty much "you can't really do much, but here's some minor stuff". I consider that a good thing though, a web server shouldn't really require config tweaking to perform well.

Definitely! Sane defaults and config readability is pretty much the main reason I recommend nginx.

>"One of my more popular blog posts is exactly about how to "optimise" nginx for high traffic loads and the gist of it is pretty much "you can't really do much, but here's some minor stuff"."

Could you provide a link for that blog post? I am not seeing it.

Maybe https://blog.martinfjordvald.com/2011/04/optimizing-nginx-fo...

I recall there being a good presentation by WhatsApp about optimizing not just the web server, but the OS (FreeBSD, in their case) to solve the C100K/C1M problem. It seemed that there was a lot more low-hanging fruit on the OS side than on the webserver side.

I spent some time looking at this recently. I'm focussed on throughput, not high TPS. The quality of blog posts is absolutely atrocious. There's a lot of blog posts that amount to "Set this setting to this value" but no real explanation why, or what the setting actually does. Some of what I've seen are actually downright dangerous.

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