What is NGINX?
Intro to NGINX
If you’ve been following along with my posts, you have a sound introduction to Apache Web Server, how it functions, it’s place in history, and how Sumo Logic can help you sort through the numerous logs provided. Apache Access and Error logs are integral to understanding the traffic patterns and issues your users face when accessing your web applications. Sumo Logic helps administrators parse through logs, isolate issues, and determine the root causes of errors. Sumo Logic also provides invaluable insight for business and product development teams in order to gauge user interaction and navigation patterns.
Today we will be covering NGINX, an open source software web server and main alternative/competitor to Apache HTTP Server. NGINX has been gaining in popularity since its inception and is used across a wide spectrum of applications for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and much more.
Quick History of NGINX
In 2002, web developers across the internet were tasked to tackle the challenge of engineering a web server capable of handling ten thousand concurrent web connections, as what would be considered a required benchmark of the modern web. Igor Sysoev, a Russian software engineer released the first public version of NGINX. The challenge was met by relying on an…
