HTTPS, Security Headers, Rate Limiting and Load Balancing in Nginx
With real runs: TLS termination in Nginx, HTTP/3 with http2 on and listen quic, security headers that don't disappear thanks to add_header_inherit merge, HSTS from a single place, 429s with limit_req, and round robin spreading unevenly without an upstream zone. ip_hash, the sticky cookie that came with 1.29.6 and passive health checks with max_fails: when an instance dies the client sees no error, but non-idempotent requests and unhealthy yet running processes need separate handling.
8 Nov 2026
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11 min
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