NGINX stale-while-revalidate cluster

[Joan Tomàs i Buliart]

Thanks Owen!

We considered all the options on these 2 documents but, on our 
environment in which is important to use stale-while-revalidate, all of 
them have, at least, one of these drawbacks: or it adds a layer in the 
fast path to the content or it can't guarantee that one request on a 
stale content will force the invalidation off all the copies of this object.

That is the reason for which we are looking for a "background" 
alternative to update the content.

Many thanks in any case,

Joan

On 07/07/17 16:04, Owen Garrett wrote:
> There are a couple of options described here that you could consider 
> if you want to share your cache between NGINX instances:
>
> https://www.nginx.com/blog/shared-caches-nginx-plus-cache-clusters-part-1/ describes 
> a sharded cache approach, where you load-balance by URI across the 
> NGINX cache servers.  You can combine your front-end load balancers 
> and back-end caches onto one tier to reduce your footprint if you wish
>
> https://www.nginx.com/blog/shared-caches-nginx-plus-cache-clusters-part-2/ describes 
> an alternative HA (shared) approach that replicates the cache so that 
> there’s no increased load on the origin server if one cache server fails.
>
> It’s not possible to share a cache across instances by using a shared 
> filesystem (e.g. nfs).
>
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>> On 7 Jul 2017, at 14:39, Peter Booth <peter_booth at me.com 
>> <mailto:peter_booth at me.com>> wrote:
>>
>> You could do that but it would be bad. Nginx' great performance is 
>> based on serving files from a local Fisk and the behavior of a Linux 
>> page cache. If you serve from a shared (nfs) filsystem then every 
>> request is slower. You shouldn't slow down the common case just to 
>> increase cache hit rate.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2017, at 9:24 AM, Frank Dias <frank.dias at prodea.com 
>> <mailto:frank.dias at prodea.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you thought about using a shared file system for the cache. 
>>> This way all the nginx 's are looking at the same cached content.
>>>
>>> On Jul 7, 2017 5:30 AM, Joan Tomàs i Buliart <joan.tomas at marfeel.com 
>>> <mailto:joan.tomas at marfeel.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi Lucas
>>>
>>>     On 07/07/17 12:12, Lucas Rolff wrote:
>>>     > Instead of doing round robin load balancing why not do a URI
>>>     based
>>>     > load balancing? Then you ensure your cached file is only
>>>     present on a
>>>     > single machine behind the load balancer.
>>>
>>>     Yes, we considered this option but it forces us to deploy and
>>>     maintain
>>>     another layer (LB+NG+AppServer). All cloud providers have round
>>>     robin
>>>     load balancers out-of-the-box but no one provides URI based load
>>>     balancer. Moreover, in our scenario, our webservers layer is quite
>>>     dynamic due to scaling up/down.
>>>
>>>     Best,
>>>
>>>     Joan
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