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0 pointsnemothekid5y ago0 comments

Web servers are the quintessential product of async. It’s no surprise that for an industry dominated by web titans spend a lot of time writing web servers and have a huge interest in asynchronous processing. The importance of a sync was cemented way back in 1999 with the c10k problem with nginx vs Apache.

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sanxiyn5y ago· 4 in thread

Most people are not writing the next nginx. They are writing web application servers behind nginx.

austinshea5y ago

This, merely, means that the web application code will hold back what Nginx is capable of serving.

pvorb5y ago

If you know that there will be 10k concurrent users in your application, go ahead and use async right from the start.

But for the rest of us, simple, blocking code will do just fine and save us a few headaches.

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platinumrad5y ago

Any web application will already be "holding back" Nginx because Nginx doesn't have to do things like database queries...

secondcoming5y ago

Maybe in your world!

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