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by mdasen 4024 days ago
The design seems similar to the one suggested in the 1999 USENIX paper "Flash: An Efficient and Portable Web Server". It's a good read on the topic. nginx came about in a time where you're a lot more likely to have your site cached in RAM than in 1999 (along with offloading large files to a CDN/S3 and reverse-proxying to an app server for a lot of other stuff), but it's nice to see them working on making performance better for the bad cases.

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/full_papers/pai...