Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency

This is an expanded version of my talk at NginxConf 2017 on September 6, 2017. As an SRE on the Dropbox Traffic Team, I’m responsible for our Edge network: its reliability, performance, and efficiency. The Dropbox edge network is an nginx-based proxy tier designed to handle both latency-sensitive metadata transactions and high-throughput data transfers. In a system that is handling tens of gigabit

[bootJP]

Dropboxの高スループット、低レイテンシーのwebサーバの話。読み応えがある

[tkmoteki]

Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency | Dropbox Tech Blog

[tmatsuu]

Webサーバで高スループットと低レイテンシーを実現するためのチューニングについてDropboxから。上から下まで。最近はクラウド環境が多いのでハードウェアに近い部分のチューニングをすることはなくなってきたけども。