Aug 7, 2026 · Operations

Scaling Nginx to Handle 500M Daily Requests: From Reverse Proxy to Traffic Governance Hub

This article walks through an enterprise‑grade Nginx upgrade for a payment platform handling ~500 million daily requests, detailing why simple reverse‑proxying fails, how Nginx can become a traffic‑governance edge with rate limiting, edge caching, gray releases, high‑availability, and observability, and provides production‑ready configurations and step‑by‑step analysis.

Edge CachingGray ReleaseHigh Availability

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Scaling Nginx to Handle 500M Daily Requests: From Reverse Proxy to Traffic Governance Hub

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Jun 27, 2022 · Operations

Understanding CDN: How Content Delivery Networks Accelerate Web Access

This article explains the concept, motivation, and basic workflow of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), showing how caching data near users reduces latency, eases origin server bandwidth pressure, and mitigates network congestion across multiple transmission layers.

CDNContent Delivery NetworkEdge Caching

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Understanding CDN: How Content Delivery Networks Accelerate Web Access