Posts tagged with #nginx

27 Aug 20263 min read

Our 60-Line Trade Secret

Sixty lines of nginx config took our worst page from 1.5 seconds to 89 milliseconds. The edge you're told to rent is the proxy you already run — and we're publishing the whole secret.

2 Nov 20254 min read

Security Lessons: Why Your Node.js Apps Are Probably Exposed

A post-incident writeup from a real production security audit. We discovered all our Next.js apps were directly accessible from the internet, bypassing Nginx entirely. Here's what we learned.