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Discussion on: How Our Stack Evolved in 10 Years

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bm-stschneider

First things first, who is 'our'?
Second why NGINX and not express or something, what benefits does NGINX has over nodejs web servers?

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Sean

Nginx is considered a Web Server and Express is considered a Web Application Framework. It's apples to apples I think.

If you want to develop an API, Nginx would not be your first choice. If you wanted to serve a static website, Nginx might be your first choice.

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Sean

Is Nginx the go-to when trying to scale your web server?