Production Nginx for 10M+ QPS: Rate Limiting, Load Balancing, WebSocket, gRPC, CDN
This guide details how to build a production‑grade Nginx edge layer capable of handling over ten million queries per second, covering traffic shaping, connection reuse, multi‑level caching, sophisticated rate‑limiting, load‑balancing algorithms, WebSocket and gRPC handling, dynamic configuration, observability, container deployment, and migration paths to API gateways or service meshes.
