Nginx, pronounced "engine-X", is the second most common web server among the top 100,000 websites. Nginx also functions well as a reverse proxy to handle requests and pass back responses for Python WSGI servers or even other web servers such as Apache. How is Nginx used in a Python web app deployment? Nginx is commonly used as a web server to serve static assets such as images, CSS and JavaScript
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