NGINX is one of the most common free, open source web servers. Its performance-oriented architecture and small footprint makes it an ideal choice for high-traffic websites.
NGINX offers great performance and optimal resource utilization to its administrators. This practical guide walks you through how to tune one of the leading free open source web servers to attain optimal performance for high-traffic sites. It also explores ways to improve network utilization for high loads.
The tour starts with an overview of the NGINX architecture. You will build and configure NGINX for optimal utilization of the hardware available. The book demonstrates various practices to improve last mile content delivery by using timeouts, caching, and compression. You'll also discover various free open source tools to test and benchmark web server performance, allowing you to verify NGINX performance at every step.
Author(s): Rahul Sharma
Series: Nginx High Performance
Edition: 1
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 228
City: Berlin; New York
Tags: Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Numeric Computing; Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation; Algorithms; Computational Science and Engineering
Front Matter....Pages -
1. Introduction....Pages 1-5
2. Overview....Pages 7-25
3. Technical Prerequisites....Pages 27-40
4. Change of Basis....Pages 41-60
5. Modular Squarefree and Greatest Factorial Factorization....Pages 61-77
6. Modular Hermite Integration....Pages 79-95
7. Computing All Integral Roots of the Resultant....Pages 97-120
8. Modular Algorithms for the Gosper-Petkovšek Form....Pages 121-148
9. Polynomial Solutions of Linear First Order Equations....Pages 149-193
10. Modular Gosper and Almkvist & Zeilberger Algorithms....Pages 195-205
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