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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by therein on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:01PM (#10618493)
They indeed are shipping with really good libraries these days but no matter how good they are, there is some level of doubt that they fail to alleviate and they get deployed behind nginx or apache httpd anyway.
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by sanderjd on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:17AM (#10619237)
It seems more like they are deployed behind load balancers, because load balancing is a specific job that it makes sense to do with a separate piece of software. Admittedly, that separate piece of software is often nginx, but there are other popular options, and I don't think very many people use Apache that way (though I could be wrong).
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by therein on Monday December 07, 2015 @06:00AM (#10688719)
I guess I should have said Apache Traffic Server rather than httpd. Their plugins and routing configuration is getting pretty enjoyable to work with.
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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by SSLy on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:18AM (#10619557)
Every third telecom around the world uses apache to load balance requests for specific application.

Source: I have to support that SW stack.

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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by sanderjd on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @11:12AM (#10621545)
Interesting, thanks for the info!
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