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Some additional context to what I'm referring, in this old blog post from 2015, nginx describe exactly why the dynamic configuration feature is important, and what's wrong with just reloading (draining the old process of connections). https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-nginx-plus-to-reduce-the-fr...

For rolling deployments, it can cause repeated configuration changes exacerbating the problem, some workloads more affected from this than others of course. The nginx ingress controller makes this clear

https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingress-controller/intro/nginx-...

Every time the number of pods of services you expose via an Ingress resource changes, the Ingress Controller updates the configuration of the load balancer to reflect those changes. For NGINX, the configuration file must be changed and the configuration subsequently reloaded. For NGINX Plus, the dynamic reconfiguration is utilized, which allows NGINX Plus to be updated on-the-fly without reloading the configuration. This prevents increase of memory usage during reloads, especially with a high volume of client requests, as well as increased memory usage when load balancing applications with long-lived connections (WebSocket, applications with file uploading/downloading or streaming).

edit: formatting

As long as Dynamic Configuration is locked behind an nginx plus-only API, these are hollow words.

This is a must have feature for todays workloads (kubernetes or just very busy webservers) in production, and nginx will likely continue to lose market share to Envoy based alternatives where everything is configured through APIs, without needing to reload the server.

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It's funny they bring up devs using vim, because the only vim key they removed is Esc, which a lot of vim devs remaps to caps-lock or similar anyways.

I almost never use the F keys, so if they kept the Esc key but removed the rest it would be perfect :)

The blog post briefly touches on this, but it's been fixed for more than a year, its just that some linux distros are very slow to get updates (read debian-stable). Initially I thought this was a new vulnerability.

Would be awesome to have silicon support libh2o as a backend; github.com/h2o/h2o

Although libmicrohttpd is a very solid first choice, I would love to see how a combination of silicon and libh2o with it's HTTP/2 engine performs.