The History of NGINX

About this episode

This episode explores the history of the web server NGINX and the myths surrounding its origin.

This episode we look into the history of the web server NGINX and of web servers more generally. We play myth buster and try to investigate the widespread story that NGINX arose from a need to scale porn sites. Igor Sysoev - Wikipedia Free Software Interview with Sysoev History of Apache How Sysoev Ended Up at Rambler Send us Fan Mail

People in this episode

Hosts: Erik Aker, Mike Mull

Topics covered

• NGINX
• web servers
• history
• scaling
• myth busting

Keywords

• NGINX
• web server
• Igor Sysoev
• Apache
• Rambler
• history of web servers
• scaling porn sites

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Organizations: Apache, Rambler

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