Core operations
Installation, compilation, process configuration, debugging, logging, log rotation, and monitoring.
Packt 2011 220 pages
Nginx 1 Web Server Implementation Cookbook
More than 100 practical recipes for configuring, securing, extending, monitoring, and operating Nginx as a web server and reverse proxy.
The systems work
Configuration that has to hold under traffic
Application serving
FastCGI, WSGI, WordPress, Drupal, and the boundary between Nginx and application processes.
Performance
Worker configuration, caching, compression, load balancing, and reverse-proxy architecture.
Security and control
SSL, access rules, bot handling, request limits, and safer exposure of web applications.
The book belongs to an earlier generation of the web stack, but the operating questions persist: where traffic enters, how work is distributed, how failures surface, what is cached, what is trusted, and who can recover the system.
That systems lineage continues in my current work on agent runtimes, Kubernetes, execution boundaries, observability, and durable workflows.