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(More seriously though, his work is impressive and I hope his next adventure is at least as fulfilling).
Here are relevant Russian discussions on OpenNET[0] & LOR[1]. N.B. From Nginx company history on Wikipedia: > On 12 December 2019, it was reported that the Moscow offices of Nginx Inc. had been raided by police, and that Sysoev and Konovalov had been detained. The raid was conducted under a search warrant connected to a copyright claim over Nginx by Rambler—which asserts that it owns all rights to the code because it…
People need to stop with this Cloudflare captcha madness. I literally accessed nginx.com a few hours ago and now it hit me with a captcha again.
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People need to stop with this Cloudflare captcha madness. I literally accessed nginx.com a few hours ago and now it hit me with a captcha again.
If you run with a lot of "identity fuzzers" (browsing through Tor, JavaScript off, cookies banned), Cloudflare can't build its trust heuristics and needs to challenge-response more often. I suspect there's overlap between HN readers and use of those sorts of tools, so I think there is a disproportionate number of people around here who run into this issue (whereas most "regular" folk almost never see a Cloudflare challenge / response).
I really take for granted how well Nginx works across a number of web backend functions. Some of the container/orchestration world has tried to supplant the need for it as a reverse proxy, but you get so many goodies out of the box just by sticking this in front of your app, and for very little overhead. I remember the pre-Nginx days and all of the struggles people routinely ran into with options like Apache or other…
I feel like I knew at one point why it got so thoroughly supplanted by nginx but I don't remember now why that happened.
To non-russian speaking users: "Do Svidaniya" means "Goodbye".
To non-russian speaking users: "Do Svidaniya" means "Goodbye".
To non-russian speaking users: "Do Svidaniya" means "Goodbye".
To add a bit more, "svidaniye" means a date, and "Do svidaniya" literally means "till [our next] date". In English, "see you" or "see you later" translates closest to the original phrase in Russian.
It still surprises me that NGINX beat out Apache so quickly even though Apache had way more modules and was/is entirely free vs. NGINX which is more or less "open core" with some nice features requiring commercial licensing.
On the other hand, the unreadable weird-ass pseudo-XML configuration files of Apache made anyone touching them wish for something better. I also expect ngx_lua did a lot for adoption, the fact that you could always "shell out" to lua if you needed was a huge boon even just for peace of mind.
If I have one gripe about NGINX it's that its configuration is a still-half-baked DSL that has quirks you wouldn't expect and when they error you don't get great feedback.
Examples: You can have an if clause, but no else attached. You can't have an if clause with multiple conditions. Finally, "if [might be] evil." 1
You end up writing a bunch of partitioned control flow statements and you're never really sure at what level of config hierarchy they would best be applied.
I love the product but Apache's XML versus NGINX's semi-declarative, hierarchical blocks aren't night and day better.
1 https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifis...