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"Do svidaniya" sounds more formal than "See you" though.
That is true, thank you for pointing it out. My personal preference is "vsego Vam dobrogo", which is even more respectful (it translates roughly as "All the kind (best) to You").
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.
The web changed. We moved away from static HTML pages and CGI scripts to monolithic application servers in java, ruby, python, etc. Apache excelled with these static content sites and simple auth scenarios (remember .htaccess files?) but became painfully complex proxying application servers. Nginx was doing exactly what was needed at exactly the time it was needed.
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I mean there was lighttpd before nginx and they have/had pretty similar structures, weights, etc. 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.
The difference is that nginx really works. I had Panoramio, a photo website featured in Google Earth / Maps, using Apache. It started to fail down under load, and I quickly switched to lighttpd. It was faster but crashing, getting OOM, etc. I fixed a memory leak and a few more bugs, but it still crashed every now and then and I looked for alternatives. This was 2006 and nginx was the only realistic alternative on the…
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The difference is that nginx really works. I had Panoramio, a photo website featured in Google Earth / Maps, using Apache. It started to fail down under load, and I quickly switched to lighttpd. It was faster but crashing, getting OOM, etc. I fixed a memory leak and a few more bugs, but it still crashed every now and then and I looked for alternatives. This was 2006 and nginx was the only realistic alternative on the…
Wait you made Flaticon? I would like to to say thank you. Before I truly got into software I was a humble associate consultant and I honestly don't know how I would have made all those decks without you.
I started with Apache long ago, and then I moved to Nginx. 15+ years have passed. Why did Apache never become a real competitor? I didn't A/B test with Apache and Nginx - I just read slashdot and later HN, and I trusted people who ran much bigger sites. But how could Nginx take such a lead that Apache could never catch up to?
If you're pre-forking, you really shouldn't scale the number of children up and down, it should always run the maximum number you want to run (whatever that is). Because a connection ties up a child, you need to do a bunch of stuff to limit the time you need apache to be touching the request; you really should run an os with accept filters, and not touch the connection until the request is ready; you need a large socket buffer so you can write the whole response and close the socket and let the OS finish sending it while Apache works on the next request; you also need to disable http-keepalive (or do something crazy; Yahoo had a 'cheapalive' daemon that would pass client sockets back and forth with (y)apache --- when the connection was idle, pass to cheapalived which puts it into a select (or kqueue/epoll, I don't remember) loop; when a socket had data to read, it would be sent back to (y)apache to process the request.
But the apache documentation wouldn't guide you into any of this, really. You'd try a normal seeming config, get things that worked, until it got busy, then spun up too many children and ground to a halt, probably swapping excessively on the way. Or just had too many people trying to do keep-alive and have 0% cpu and doing nothing. Or maybe spinning your wheels trying to get threaded mpm's to work (but they don't work with most of the popular mod_X's anyway). The market seems to be telling us that a big kqueue/epoll is the solution we want, but well tuned pre-fork can also do a lot; it kind of depends on if your bottleneck is the http server or if your bottleneck is your application code. If you've written your application code well enough that the http server is the bottleneck; congratulations! (or you might be a static content server, but then your bottleneck might well be your NICs or your OS TCP stack)
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Wait you made Flaticon? I would like to to say thank you. Before I truly got into software I was a humble associate consultant and I honestly don't know how I would have made all those decks without you.
Thank you! My partner Alejandro Sánchez is actually who got the idea of Flaticon, and Fernando Fernández did most of the initial implementation. When we hired Fernando he was flipping burgers at BurgerKing :)
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Wait you made Flaticon? I would like to to say thank you. Before I truly got into software I was a humble associate consultant and I honestly don't know how I would have made all those decks without you.
Thank you! My partner Alejandro Sánchez is actually who got the idea of Flaticon, and Fernando Fernández did most of the initial implementation. When we hired Fernando he was flipping burgers at BurgerKing :)
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
I'm an experienced dev with a deep knowledge of full stack web as well as infrastructure but I've never put nginx in front of any app. I want to but I honestly avoided it because I thought it was difficult. This may not be the right place to ask but is there a good guide for someone who's deep into nodejs who just wants to set up nginx on Debian in front of a node server with https? and just see how it goes.
I know this is massively off-topic (have a good well paid "retirement" Igor), but I assumed that it would be written as Dos Vidaniya instead of (the correct) Do svidanyia My Russian studies is limited to listening to Sean Connery in The Russia House, and I guess I took Dos from the latin languages. Odd.
I had the same thought. I think it's more Slavic vs Germanic/Romantic. "sv", without a vowel, doesn't exist in any word I can think of. However, in Russian, consonant clusters like that are pretty common. See also, from the article, Sberbank. I'd bet there's plenty of examples in reverse too.