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title = "Nginx: From Beginner to Pro - Rahul Soni"
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date = 2017-06-28
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tags = ["books", "rahul soni", "reviews", "nginx", "it", "1 star"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30892392-nginx):
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Teaches you to start up Nginx and quickly take your expertise to a level where
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you can comfortably work with various aspects of the web server and make
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informed design decisions for your web farm. Nginx powers more than 40% of the
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top 1000 websites and is among the handful of web servers that can handle more
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than 10K simultaneous connections. It has some features which are simply
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unparalleled.
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{{ stars(stars=1) }}
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Seriously, I had to read this with a lot of self control, because there was so
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much bullshit. I mean, you don't need to know Nginx to understand that the PID
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file is used to know if the process is running (in the most simple case) but
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the book tries to sell it as a way to check process uptime. I mean, seriously?
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Of all the things, Nginx will create a PID file simply for you to check its
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uptime?
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This kind of thing keeps going on and on. It feels like the author didn't know
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Nginx at all and was figuring out as the book was being written; when they had
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no idea what one thing meant, bullshit was used to fill the blanks.
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This means two things: One, there is so much bullshit it is painful. Second,
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the book only gets reasonably good at the end. But still hardly anything near
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the "Pro" as used in the title.
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