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Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Toronto SEO — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:12:52 -0000

Definitely looks like something I will be looking into in the near future. Thanks for the post!

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Acai Berry — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:03:06 -0000

Just getting into Ruby of Rails...this is food for thought. Cheers.

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

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Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Truck campers — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:54:59 -0000

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Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Science — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:49:09 -0000

This article is really great. It was inspiration for me to *finally* implement page caching myself using nginx and SSI. What a difference!

I actually took your ideas and extended into a slightly obsure / CRUD backwater: form POSTS. My URL architecture was such that I have form POSTS and Ajax requests going to the same URL's as the GET requests that are supposed to be page cached.

So, I implemented a little doo-dad in nginx.conf to by-pass the page cache on form POSTS. I think this is a smart addition to any caching strategy (since in general POST's should not be cached from a semantic perspective - a POST is the opposite of a cache hit right?)

Anyway I wrote some more detail of this up on my blog, in case you're interested:

http://www.misuse.org/scien...

Again - thanks for taking the first big step in this direction. Very helpful! - Science

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Dan Williams — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:39:03 -0000

Thanks Jesse your my hero.

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

anotherjesse — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:52:28 -0000

we hit the same issue as Dan - investigating we figured out it was ruby's marshaling of the string included a few extra bytes at the begining.

By doing set(key, text, 60, true) # you get it cached for 60 seconds in raw format

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Dan Williams — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:29:34 -0000

Great post. Really helping me squeeze the most out of my cluster.

One problem though.

As a test I'm doing:

CACHE.set('Action:/index',render_to_string :action=>:index)

when nginx serves the page from memcached its adding

{{

}}

to the beginning of my cached pages.

Any insight into what is causing this?

Thanks for your great blog,

Dan

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Denis — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:22:10 -0000

Did you try to measure the performance boost?

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Станислав — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:45:50 -0000

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Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

KarD_IO — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:22:52 -0000

What about Last Modified, ETag etc. and cache control?

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

harrisj — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:50:16 -0000

Great writeup. This is awesome to play with, although it reveals how far behind the version of nginx in apt-get is...

I am seeing one strange thing though using this. For some reason, Nginx is seemingly prepending the characters "?! to the value in memcached (I got the value directly from memcached and they don't seem to be in there). Have you seen this as well or is it just me? I guess I'll check if there is some weird encoding issue going on...

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Murat — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:59:23 -0000

The idea is brilliant!

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Matt Aimonetti — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:55:03 -0000

Brilliant, thanks for a clear and detailed explanation.

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Scoundrel — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:58:04 -0000

I don't remember what version I use ;-) AFAIR, it is something like 0.5.X (stable branch).

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Todd Fisher — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:27:52 -0000

What version of nginx are you using?

Re: Using Nginx, SSI and Memcache to Make Your Web Applications Faster

Todd Fisher — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:45:19 -0000

This is very similar in concept to ESI. I'd guess the only advantage you might get from using ESI instead of SSI is akami/oracle support, but with the right level of abstraction e.g. the rails helper you mentioned you can easily switch the underlying syntax.

Hitting memcache directly from the proxy server is really a fantastic optimization.