Nginx Event Driven Architecture — Demonstrated in Code

Eileen Pangu
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readJan 15, 2021

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Source: nginx.com

Background

Nginx is an open source web server that can be used as a reserve proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and mail proxy. It’s capable of supporting a high number of concurrent connections, which is one of its flagship features. The Nginx website has a blog post [1] that explains the event driven architecture behind its stellar scalability. While that’s an…

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