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Ebn Sina
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Web Servers

Nginx, reverse proxy, edge caching

  1. 00 Web Server Fundamentals — Roadmap Ten chapters that build a working understanding of web servers — from raw TCP sockets to a tuned, hardened nginx in front of a real backend. →
  2. 01 What is a Web Server Anatomy of an HTTP request from socket to response. The four stages every web server runs through, and the names for the parts. →
  3. 02 HTTP from a Raw Socket Speak HTTP by hand with netcat. Then write a 60-line Go server that does exactly the same thing — no framework, no surprises. →
  4. 03 Building a Real HTTP/1.1 Parser Request bodies, Content-Length, chunked transfer encoding, and the dozen edge cases that turn a toy parser into one you would trust in production. →
  5. 04 Concurrency Models Process per request, thread per request, prefork, event loop, hybrid. The five ways web servers handle thousands of concurrent connections — and why each one exists. →
  6. 05 Static Files & MIME How a server turns a file path into bytes on the wire — content types, ETags, conditional requests, and the cache headers that keep every browser fast. →
  7. 06 nginx Fundamentals Install, structure the config, write server blocks, understand locations and includes. The nginx mental model that holds for every advanced feature. →
  8. 07 Reverse Proxy nginx in front of your application server. The headers that matter, the timeouts that save you, and the upstream pool that handles failure. →
  9. 08 Access & Error Logs Customize nginx log formats, understand what each field means, find requests by status or duration, and tell access logs apart from error logs the right way. →
  10. 09 Edge Caching with nginx proxy_cache, microcaching, stale-while-revalidate, and the cache key rules that turn nginx into a CDN you control. →
  11. 10 Performance & Hardening Workers, sendfile, gzip and brotli, security headers, rate limiting, connection limits, body size caps. The dials that turn a working nginx into a fast, defensible one. →