The Future of the Dynamic Application Server
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NGINX Unit presents a dynamic, API-driven application server first released in 2017 that manages listeners, routes and multilingual apps (PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, Node.js, experimental Java) without config files, using a controller + main + router process model and in-memory shared memory handoffs between router and app for sub-millisecond routing. It exposes a REST API-controlled configuration surface, spawns and scales threads on demand, holds certificates in memory for zero-downtime rotations, and lets different app versions run side-by-side as a polyglot runtime.
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