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Nginx is quite scalable with the right configuration and hardware, but most of the times you want to use more instances of it to scale to this kind of traffic.
Modern, Envoy based proxies are quite popular, and can scale better with better performance, mostly due to the fact it’s written in C++.
You can scale horizontally with a lot of web servers and load balance them. You don't need to stretch load balancer clusters across AZs/regions, so I see no reason why Nginx wouldn't work.
I assume at that scale session cookies are shared without application server clustering. A distributed KV store is probably enough.
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Nothing wrong with NGINX. Read Cloudflare post on Pingora. Different needs for different usecases where NGINX is more of an OOTB situation. NGINX is great. I see Caddy mentioned quite a bit, believe it’s written in Go where NGINX is written in C. Cloudflare wrote Pingora in Rust IIRC and I want to say they are releasing an open source flavor
Hmm I read the post. Cloudfare handles almost 1 trillion requests per day, Google does that per year. However, the request types are different, Cloudfare handles a variety of requests like caching and forwarding, while Google requests are about serving complete web pages. May be for the webserver purpose like Google Nginx may suffice?
Nginx is not going to be your bottleneck. If it is, you don't need to be asking on here. :)
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Nothing wrong with NGINX. Read Cloudflare post on Pingora. Different needs for different usecases where NGINX is more of an OOTB situation. NGINX is great. I see Caddy mentioned quite a bit, believe it’s written in Go where NGINX is written in C. Cloudflare wrote Pingora in Rust IIRC and I want to say they are releasing an open source flavor
Hmm I read the post. Cloudfare handles almost 1 trillion requests per day, Google does that per year. However, the request types are different, Cloudfare handles a variety of requests like caching and forwarding, while Google requests are about serving complete web pages. May be for the webserver purpose like Google Nginx may suffice?
Probably yes. You can scale horizontally with a lot of web servers and load balance them. You don't need to stretch load balancer clusters across AZs/regions, so I see no reason why Nginx wouldn't work. I assume at that scale session cookies are shared without application server clustering. A distributed KV store is probably enough.
Probably yes. You can scale horizontally with a lot of web servers and load balance them. You don't need to stretch load balancer clusters across AZs/regions, so I see no reason why Nginx wouldn't work. I assume at that scale session cookies are shared without application server clustering. A distributed KV store is probably enough.
Hi, I thought so too. But then why did it not work for Cloudflare, and why did their custom solution work with Pingora?
They also wanted something written in a memory-safe language so it could be extended without easily falling into memory safety issues. NGINX is written in C.