How We Designed for Performance and Scale
"NGINX’s binary upgrade process achieves the holy grail of high-availability; you can upgrade the software on the fly, without any dropped connections, downtime or interruption in service."<p>Is this really true? I remember seeing an article[1] recently on using an iptables hack to prevent dropping connections when reloading haproxy. Does nginx actually provide zero-downtime configuration reloads?<p>[1] <a href="https://medium.com/@Drew_Stokes/actual-zero-downtime-with-haproxy-18318578fde6" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@Drew_Stokes/actual-zero-downtime-with-ha...</a>