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		todsul on July 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Nginx obsolete now that we have Amazon CloudFro... Nginx can handle much higher loads than Varnish in many situations. Check this out for a look at Nginx's architecture: http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html

stavros on July 31, 2012 [–]

I have read that, but what are those situations? I really doubt claims of "much higher" performance, Varnish is very, very performant.

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