Scaling Drupal sites with NGINX

NGINX was designed to be the fastest web server around. A couple benchmarks have shown NGINX to edge out other lightweight web servers and proxies, and to stomp out the not-so-lightweight ones. NGINX is a great tool that's more flexible than you realize and will let you superpower your site.  It can be used as a webserver, reverseproxy or a loadbalancer .

In this presentation, we'll walk through how you can use NGINX as a balancer and a reverse proxy that uses the best D8 practices like CacheTags Purge, and BigPipe!

Topics covered in the session:

1. Setting up NGINX as:
   1. A webserver
   2. A reverse proxy
   3. A load balancer
2. Using NGINX to serve static files
3. Caching with NGINX
4. Microcaching - Caching content for milliseconds. Keeping content fresh while taking load of the webserver
5. Purging cache tags with NGINX, integration with purge module.
6. in-memory caching with NGINX
7. Read/Wite to Memcache or Redis using NGINX
8. NGINX with BigPipe
9. NGINX with SSI and ESI
10. Moving from Apache to NGINX

Who should attend this session:

• Drupal Architects
• DevOps Engineers
• Performance Gurus
• Solution Architects

Prerequisites:

• Understanding of LAMP stack
• Basic understanding of webserver and reverseproxy