Lesson 5 of 12 · Load balancing
Nginx as a load balancer: upstream, passive failure detection and TCP streams
Objective
Use Nginx, already present on many servers, as a reliable load balancer in front of several application servers, while understanding what it can do on its own and what it lacks compared with HAProxy.
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