The design seems similar to the one suggested in the 1999 USENIX paper "Flash: An Efficient and Portable Web Server". It's a good read on the topic. nginx cam

The design seems similar to the one suggested in the 1999 USENIX paper "Flash: An Efficient and Portable Web Server". It's a good read on the topic. nginx came about in a time where you're a lot more likely to have your site cached in RAM than in 1999 (along with offloading large files to a CDN/S3 and reverse-proxying to an app server for a lot of other stuff), but it's nice to see them working on making performance better for the bad cases. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/full_papers/pai/pai.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/full_papers/pai...