Tag: nginx

All the articles with the tag "nginx".

• Nginx in front of two Node.js apps: proxy headers, failover, 429 and a cache HIT

  20 Oct, 2026

  One Nginx 1.31.6 container and two Node.js app instances in Docker Compose. Every config file, the headers the app receives, a stopped backend costing exactly one slow request, rate limiting with 429, gzip at 8x, a cache HIT in under a millisecond and TLS 1.3 with HTTP/2, with every command to repeat it.