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I can think of quite a few use cases: Ebedding a webserver in a Java application. Writing distributed infrastructure software like Hadoop or some kind of messaging system. Anything that caches stuff on a disk to pass it on later. Database systems that replicate transaction logs. Backup and storage systems.

I don't think nginx or web servers in general are the last word ever to be spoken in terms of networking software.