Inside NGINX: How We Designed for Performance & Scale

Here is the article.

NGINX leads the pack in web performance, and it’s all due to the way the software is designed. Whereas many web servers and application servers use a simple threaded or process‑based architecture, NGINX stands out with a sophisticated event‑driven architecture that enables it to scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections on modern hardware.

The Inside NGINX infographic drills down from the high‑level process architecture to illustrate how NGINX handles multiple connections within a single process. This blog explains how it all works in further detail.