sticking point - a point at which an impasse arises in progress toward an agreement or a goal. detail, item, point - an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; several of the details are similar; a point of information. Translations.
Nginx is an open source HTTP Web server and reverse proxy server. Pronounced as âEngine-Ex,â Nginx has emerged as the third most popular Web server behind the Apache Web server and Microsoftâs IIS, and it currently powers popular websites like Pinterest, WordPress.com, Netflix, Hulu, CloudFlare, Zappos and Zynga.
Aimed at solving the C10K problem of 10,000 simultaneous connections, nginx was written with a different architecture in mindâone which is much more suitable for nonlinear scalability in both the number of simultaneous connections and requests per second.