Cranking Nginx Up to 11

Explore the advanced capabilities of Nginx in this 38-minute conference talk from PHP UK Conference 2013. Discover how to leverage Nginx's hidden features beyond its basic web server functionality, including direct communication with Memcached and Redis for API optimization, proxy functionality, GeoIP integration, Lua scripting in configuration, MogileFS file serving, enhanced header manipulation, and even direct database querying for Drizzle and Postgres. Learn how to maximize Nginx's potential and take your web server performance to the next level with insights from speaker Helgi Thorbjoernsson.