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How does NGINX handle 10,000 concurrent connections without spawning 10,000 threads?

Tests whether you know NGINX's event-driven, non-blocking architecture is what makes this possible on modest hardware.

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How does NGINX handle 10,000 concurrent connections without spawning 10,000 threads?

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