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Understanding Nginx

History of Nginx

https://www.nginx.com/wp-content/uploads/201…

Understanding Nginx versioning

https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-6-1-7-rel…

Interview with the creator of Nginx

https://web.archive.org/web/20180614224054/h…

Interview with Igor Sysoev, author of Apache's competitor NGINX

http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/int…

The case for Nginx in front of application servers

https://www.cambus.net/the-case-for-nginx-in…

Nginx Optimization: understanding sendfile, tcp_nodelay and tcp_nopush

https://thoughts.t37.net/nginx-optimization-…

Architecture

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 2): nginx

https://aosabook.org/en/nginx.html

Nginx Guts - Shedding light on Nginx internals

http://www.nginxguts.com/category/nginx/

Nginx discovery journey

https://www.nginx-discovery.com/

Nginx Internals

https://www.slideshare.net/joshzhu/nginx-int…

Inside NGINX: How We Designed for Performance & Scale

https://www.nginx.com/blog/inside-nginx-how-…

Thread Pools in NGINX

https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boos…

Configuration

h5bp/server-configs-nginx

Nginx HTTP server boilerplate configs

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nginx-boilerplate/nginx-boilerplate

Awesome Nginx configuration template

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MIT

yandex/gixy

Nginx configuration static analyzer

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1y 95d
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Beginner's Guide

https://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.ht…

Alphabetical index of variables

https://nginx.org/en/docs/varindex.html

Nginx Pitfalls

https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/t…

Useful Rewrites for Nginx

https://blog.engineyard.com/useful-rewrites-…

Nginx Configuration Primer

https://blog.martinfjordvald.com/nginx-prime…

Nginx Primer 2: From Apache to Nginx

https://blog.martinfjordvald.com/nginx-prime…

Understanding the Nginx Configuration Inheritance Model

https://blog.martinfjordvald.com/understandi…

How to Configure OCSP Stapling in Apache and Nginx

https://sslmate.com/blog/post/ocsp_stapling_…

NGINX Config - Online nginx configuration generator

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools…

Nice nginx features for developers

https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/nginx-features-…

Nice nginx features for operators

https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/nginx-features-…

Avoiding the Top 10 NGINX Configuration Mistakes

https://www.nginx.com/blog/avoiding-top-10-n…

Tutorials

NGINX and NGINX Plus Admin Guide

https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/

agentzh's Nginx Tutorials

Source)

https://openresty.org/download/agentzh-nginx…

Introduction to nginx.conf scripting

https://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-s…

Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus

Part 2)

https://www.nginx.com/blog/load-balancing-wi…

Optimizing Nginx for High Traffic Loads

https://blog.martinfjordvald.com/optimizing-…

NGINX as a WebSockets Proxy

https://www.nginx.com/blog/websocket-nginx/

HTTP Keepalive Connections and Web Performance

https://www.nginx.com/blog/http-keepalives-a…

CORS on Nginx

https://enable-cors.org/server_nginx.html

Serving precompressed content with Nginx and Zopfli

https://www.cambus.net/serving-precompressed…

Nginx on FreeBSD

https://www.cambus.net/nginx-on-freebsd/

Using New Debugging Features to Probe NGINX Internals

https://www.nginx.com/blog/new-debugging-fea…

Performing A/B Testing with NGINX and NGINX Plus

https://www.nginx.com/blog/performing-a-b-te…

Improving NGINX Performance with Kernel TLS and SSL_sendfile()

https://www.nginx.com/blog/improving-nginx-p…

Modules development

Official Development Guide

https://nginx.org/en/docs/dev/development_gu…

Guide to Nginx Module Development

https://www.evanmiller.org/nginx-modules-gui…

Advanced Topics In Nginx Module Development

https://www.evanmiller.org/nginx-modules-gui…

Developing Nginx Modules

https://www.airpair.com/nginx/extending-ngin…

APIs

Telize - JSON IP and GeoIP REST API (IP Geolocation) built on Nginx and Lua

https://www.telize.com

GIN - JSON-API framework

http://gin.io/

Outbound API rate limits: the nginx way

https://www.monterail.com/blog/2011/outbound…

Using Nginx to comply with a third-party API's rate limits

https://vitobotta.com/2014/01/12/nginx-rate-…

Simple API with Nginx and PostgreSQL

http://rny.io/nginx/postgresql/2013/07/26/si…

Kong - Management Layer for Microservices and APIs

https://konghq.com/kong/

Hacks

p0pr0ck5/lua-resty-tarpit

OpenResty response time inflation

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Nginx JSON hacks

https://web.archive.org/web/20140921162448/h…

Using Environment Variables In Nginx.conf

https://web.archive.org/web/20170712003702/h…

Log rotation directly within Nginx configuration file

https://www.cambus.net/log-rotation-directly…

Realtime pixel tracking with Nginx, syslog-ng, and Redis

https://benwilber.github.io/nginx/redis/sysl…

Dynamic log formats in Nginx

https://benwilber.github.io/nginx/syslog/log…

Nginx: a caching, thumbnailing, reverse proxying image server?

https://charlesleifer.com/blog/nginx-a-cachi…

Tips

Things you didn't know Nginx could do

https://www.slideshare.net/sarahnovotny/5-th…

Finding the nginx gzip_comp_level sweet spot

https://mjanja.ch/2015/03/finding-the-nginx-…

nginx mirroring tips and tricks

https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/nginx-mirror/

Nginx + Lua

pirogoeth/lsso

Nginx SSO middleware for protecting your internets.

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6y 34d
MIT

fabiocicerchia/nginx-lua

Nginx 1.19+ with LUA support based on Alpine Linux, Amazon Linux, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu.

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15
1y 93d
MIT

Nginx, Lua, and beyond

https://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-lua-an…

Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua

https://blog.cloudflare.com/pushing-nginx-to…

Augmenting APIs with Nginx and Lua

https://tech.3scale.net/2013/01/09/augment-y…

Adding OAuth Support to Nginx via Lua

https://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/oauth-support…

Scripting libdrizzle with Lua inside Nginx

https://agentzh.org/misc/slides/libdrizzle-l…

Nginx and Lua

https://web.archive.org/web/20141223070856/h…

Writing an Nginx authentication module in Lua

https://www.stavros.io/posts/writing-an-ngin…

Scaling TextRazor in the Cloud with Nginx and Lua

https://www.textrazor.com/blog/2013/03/scali…

Measuring Nginx Cache Performance using Lua and Redis

https://charlesleifer.com/blog/measuring-ngi…

OpenResty

cagerton/dropthat

Client side encryption can be part of this complete breakfast. Also Lua.

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MIT

alexazhou/VeryNginx

A very powerful and friendly nginx base on lua-nginx-module( openresty ) which provide WAF, Control Panel, and Dashboards.

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LGPL-3.0

OpenResty - Fast web app server by extending Nginx

https://openresty.org/en/

Lapis - A web framework for Lua or MoonScript powered by OpenResty

https://leafo.net/lapis/

Nginx image processing server with OpenResty and Lua

https://leafo.net/posts/creating_an_image_se…

SysAdvent 2014 - OpenResty, Nginx and Lua

Source)

https://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2014/12/day-2…

OpenResty (Nginx) with dynamically generated certificates

https://blog.dutchcoders.io/openresty-with-d…

Ceryx - A dynamic reverse proxy

https://ide.sourcelair.com/blog/articles/75/…

An Introduction To OpenResty

https://openmymind.net/An-Introduction-To-Op…

Programming OpenResty (written by the OpenResty creator)

https://openresty.gitbooks.io/programming-op…

Tengine

openresty/openresty

High Performance Web Platform Based on Nginx and LuaJIT

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1.33K
1y 98d
n/a

Tengine Web Server

https://tengine.taobao.org

Talks

NGINX Conference 2019 Videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGz_X…

NGINX Conference 2018 Videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGz_X…

NGINX Conference 2017 Videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGz_X…

NGINX Conference 2016 Videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGz_X…

NGINX Conference 2015 Videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGz_X…

NGINX Conference 2014 Videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGz_X…

NGINX Conference

https://www.nginx.com/nginxconf/

NGINX User Summit 2014 - Lightning talks

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGz_X…