Load Balancing in the Cloud, Practical Solutions with NGINX and AWS, published by O'REILLY Free Download: Load Balancing in the Cloud, Practical Solutions with NGINX and AWS. The use of redundant servers has long been a solution for meeting sudden spikes in demand, machine failures, and outages. Cloud services greatly reduce the cost and hassle of provisioning redundant equipment and load balancers and give you the ability to deal with separate network, application, and client-side loads. But today there are many options to consider, and you have to determine which cloud service (or services) will meet your unique needs.

Continue reading

The NGINX Cookbook, published by O'REILLY. In 2016 I started writing for O'REILLY Media to produce The NGINX Cookbook. This is book was organized and released in three parts. The first part focued on load balancing on the modern web. The second, security and access. Lastly, a part about deployment and operations. This blog is not much more than a reference to the book. You can find the book for free at the link above.

Continue reading