Beyond Reverse Proxy: Production‑Ready Static/Dynamic Separation and Multi‑Level Caching with Nginx
The article explains how to turn Nginx from a simple reverse‑proxy into a high‑performance traffic accelerator by leveraging its event‑driven architecture, zero‑copy file delivery, multi‑level caching with lock and background refresh, static‑dynamic separation, horizontal scaling, gray releases, observability, and robust rate‑limiting and circuit‑breaker mechanisms.
