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You can use this page to email Jason Joseph Nathan about Nginx by Example Vol. 1.
About the Book
NGINX by Example is a field manual for engineers who never want to Google configs again.
It’s a curated collection of real-world NGINX configurations. Each one battle-tested and wrapped in the context you’d actually use in production.
Every chapter includes:
- A real infrastructure problem
- A reusable, production-ready configuration
- Operational notes, edge cases, and performance tuning tips
What you’ll learn:
- OCSP stapling, Mutual TLS, subdomain wildcards
- WebSockets, SSE, fallback logic
- Blue-green deployments & traffic shaping
- Brotli & static compression
- WordPress FastCGI cache (no plugin)
- Invisible CDNs with
X-Accel-Redirect
You’ll get:
- A beautifully typeset 79-page PDF (print-ready)
- Full GitHub access (+ tests) to all configs used
- Free updates as the book evolves
- No DRM. Print & deploy freely
About the Author
A technologist who builds, mentors and occasionally sleeps. He is a principal software consultant & writes at geekist.co