Nginx

NGINX is an open-source software distributed with a simplified 2-point BSD-like license, used as a web server, high-performance load stabilizer, reverse proxy server, API gateway and content cache. It expands functions with static or dynamic compiling modules and is managed with text-based configuration files containing parameters called 'directive'. It works with a multi-process architecture consisting of worker (worker) processes whose number can be adjusted to CPU kernels by a master (master) process.

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nginx · API Gateways & Clients

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web-serverReverse Proxyload-balancersslBSD / ISC

Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management

What can it do?
  • You can manage incoming network traffic with reverse proxy server and load stabilizer configurations.
  • You can edit server performance using content caching and speed limitation features.
  • You can activate TLS encryption by installing SSL certificates.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

    “The subtle thing here is that in the US and the UK typically things created "in the course of employment" (as defined in UK) would typically be owned by the employer. This is enforced either through a contract (e.g., in US), or both national law by default and the contract…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

    “An inserted translation of the literal meaning might have been allowed, since the rules also say (ISTR) that this is an English-language website. Colloquialise that from the formal exact "Til we meet again" to be a bit more informal (because that can still be read as "...in…”

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