The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Episode 124 - NginX

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NginX is an open source web server written in C and can also be used as a reverse proxy and a load balancer.

In this video, I want to go through the following topics in NginX

  • What is NginX? 2:25
  • Current & Desired Architecture 4:58
  • Layer 4 and Layer 7 Proxying in Nginx 8:40
  • Example 10:25
    • Install Nginx (mac) 13:30
    • Nginx as a Web Server 15:00 (webserver.conf)
      • Static context location root 20:00
      • regular expression 27:00
      • proxy pass 30:30
      • Nginx as a Layer 7 Proxy 33:30
        • Proxy to 4 backend NodeJS services (docker) 37:00
        • IP_Hash load balaning 43:00
        • Split load to multiple backends (app1/app2) 46:00
        • Block certain requests (/admin) 49:00
        • NGINX as a Layer 4 Proxy 51:30
        • Create DNS record 1:01:08
        • Enable HTTPS on Nginx (lets encrypt) 1:05:08
        • Enable TLS 1.3 on Nginx 1:14:00
        • Enable HTTP/2 on NGINX 1:17:10
        • Summary 1:20:10

          • Cards

          3:40 proxy vs reverse proxy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhe__GdWC8&t=1s

          8:50 OSI Model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IS7gigunyI

          10:00 L4 vs l7 load balancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKMLgFVxZYk

          34:00 spin up docker app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmSMrQ8Ev9w&t=14s

          44:26 stateless vs stateful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFPzI_Qg3FU

          1:16:30 TLS video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlE5X1NlHgg&t=8s

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