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Nginx cheat sheet & developer notes

Nginx cheat sheet and 2 curated developer notes — core concepts, patterns, and interview prep. Maintained by the DevRecall team.

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Nginx Configuration

Nginx Configuration. Nginx is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy. Its event-driven architecture makes it highly efficient for serving static content, terminating SSL, and proxying to application servers.. Co…

Nginx for Node.js Apps

Nginx for Node.js Apps. Nginx as a reverse proxy in front of Node.js (Next.js, Express, NestJS) handles SSL termination, static asset serving, load balancing, and protects the application server from direct internet expo…

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Concepts to know for Nginx

HTTP CachingHow browsers and CDNs decide to reuse a response: freshness with Cache-Control, validation with ETag, cache keys with Vary, and the recipes that actually work.Intermediate·13 min DNS Resolution: From Name to IP AddressHow a resolver walks root, TLD and authoritative servers to turn a name into an address, why TTL caching explains "propagation", and where DNS breaks.Intermediate·13 min Load Balancing: L4 vs L7, Algorithms, Health ChecksWhat L4 and L7 balancers actually forward, why least-request beats round robin, how health checks and draining make deploys safe, and why gRPC breaks it.Intermediate·13 min WebSockets vs SSE vs PollingThree ways to get server events into a browser, what each costs at the proxy and at scale, and a decision rule you can defend in a design interview.Intermediate·13 min HTTP/2 and HTTP/3: Multiplexing, QUIC and HOL BlockingWhat HTTP/2 multiplexing fixed in HTTP/1.1, why one lost TCP packet still stalls every stream, and how HTTP/3 over QUIC moves the fix into UDP.Intermediate·13 min The TLS Handshake and Certificate ChainsWhat happens in the round trip before HTTPS sends a byte: key exchange, certificate checks, forward secrecy, 0-RTT, and why handshakes fail in production.Intermediate·14 min

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