# New book about Nginx **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [August 27, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160 "2015-08-27T10:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sadaf_N)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/1 "2015-08-27T10:19:30Z")
Hi everyone! I would like to announce that a new book about nginx called ‘Nginx Essentials’ that I was working on the last 6 months has been published and is now available in E-stores worldwide, e.g.: [http://www.amazon.com/Nginx-Essentials-Valery-Kholodkov/dp/1785289535](http://www.amazon.com/Nginx-Essentials-Valery-Kholodkov/dp/1785289535) This book is ideal for skilled web masters and site reliability engineers who want to switch to Nginx or solidify their knowledge of Nginx. This will help you to learn how to set up, configure, and operate an Nginx installation for day-to-day use, explore the vast features of Nginx to manage it like a pro, and use them successfully to run your website. This book is an example-based guide to get the best out of Nginx and reduce resource usage footprint. The work on this book was a new interesting journey for me and I would like to thank the Packt Publishing team for making everything happen, as well as technical reviewers. I hope this book will be usefull for you and you enjoy reading it! – Regards, Valery K. ---
**Author:** ![Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Valery_K)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/2 "2015-08-27T19:04:40Z")
_Is this for this book I (and many many other people, as they are used to, search about them) have been contacted by those Packt Publishing crooks to review, effectively asking me to work for free for them?_ I am glad you make books, but skilled people usually find what they seek for by themselves, not in a book dedicated to a specific technology. Books are more suitable for concepts and design, not for specificities and particular implementations. Write a book about making a website instead. Or don’t. ## _This mailing list is about discussing the (FOSS?) nginx product, not about self-promoting anonymous nginx experts and selling related stuff. Step away._ That said, I wish you to make money, I am sorry for you having chosen to work with Packt Publishing, and I wish people not to believe books from Nonames about specific technologies are in any way useful. _B. R._ On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Valery K. \< ---
**Author:** ![Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Valery_K)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/3 "2015-08-27T21:45:19Z")
On Thursday 27 August 2015 19:03:37 B.R. wrote: > _This mailing list is about discussing the (FOSS?) nginx product, not about > self-promoting anonymous nginx experts and selling related stuff. Step > away._ > That said, I wish you to make money, I am sorry for you having chosen to > work with Packt Publishing, and I wish people not to believe books from > Nonames about specific technologies are in any way useful. > [..] The author of the book, Valery K. is a well known specialist. He is also author of several nginx modules (his Upload module is among the most popular 3rd-party modules). He has great knowledge of nginx internals, and his blog [http://www.nginxguts.com/](http://www.nginxguts.com/) is one of the best resources for beginners in nginx development. In 2008 he was a speaker at large IT conference in Moscow about the nginx internals and modules development. When in 2010 I started developing my first module for nginx, I was completely new to nginx sources. Valery’s article and responses to my questions in mailing list were the most valuable for understanding how nginx works. So I’m sure that he wrote a good book about nginx, and I’m so sorry to read such response to his announcement. wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev ---
**Author:** ![Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Valery_K)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/4 "2015-08-27T19:51:59Z")
Hi, this is not my business but this reply from “B.R.” has excited me. This is example of disrespect and discourtesy to the another’s work. Please, keep your fucking opinion to yourself. * * * w — Original message — From: “B.R.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Date: 27 August 2015, 20:04:31 Is this for this book I (and many many other people, as they are used to, search about them) have been contacted by those Packt Publishing crooks to review, effectively asking me to work for free for them? I am glad you make books, but skilled people usually find what they seek for by themselves, not in a book dedicated to a specific technology. Books are more suitable for concepts and design, not for specificities and particular implementations. Write a book about making a website instead. Or don’t. ## This mailing list is about discussing the (FOSS?) nginx product, not about self-promoting anonymous nginx experts and selling related stuff. Step away. That said, I wish you to make money, I am sorry for you having chosen to work with Packt Publishing, and I wish people not to believe books from Nonames about specific technologies are in any way useful. B. R. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Valery K. \< [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) \> wrote: Hi everyone! I would like to announce that a new book about nginx called ‘Nginx Essentials’ that I was working on the last 6 months has been published and is now available in E-stores worldwide, e.g.: > **[Nginx Essentials: Excel in Nginx quickly by learning to use its most essential...](https://www.amazon.com/Nginx-Essentials-Valery-Kholodkov/dp/1785289535)** > > Nginx Essentials: Excel in Nginx quickly by learning to use its most essential features in real-life applications \[Valery Kholodkov\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Nginx Essentials: Excel in Nginx quickly by learning to use its... This book is ideal for skilled web masters and site reliability engineers who want to switch to Nginx or solidify their knowledge of Nginx. This will help you to learn how to set up, configure, and operate an Nginx installation for day-to-day use, explore the vast features of Nginx to manage it like a pro, and use them successfully to run your website. This book is an example-based guide to get the best out of Nginx and reduce resource usage footprint. The work on this book was a new interesting journey for me and I would like to thank the Packt Publishing team for making everything happen, as well as technical reviewers. I hope this book will be usefull for you and you enjoy reading it! – Regards, Valery K. * * * nginx mailing list [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > **[mailman.nginx.org archive](http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/)** ---
**Author:** ![Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Valery_K)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/5 "2015-08-28T00:30:03Z")
[also intentionally top posted] This is a mailing list for discussion of things that are _helpful_ to NGINX users. People that subscribe to this mailing list come from a variety of educational backgrounds and experiences and all learn differently. This means that things which may not be helpful to you may well be helpful to others. This said, even when we disagree, it is paramount that we are respectful and gracious given that email lacks any sort of tone except the words we chose. One of the things which is amazing about this community is that there is such depth and diversity of experience that can be shared. Please continue to be awesome to one another remember that many other may be helped even when something seems irrelevant to you. Now, in the spirit of respecting each other’s contributions and time, let’s move on to more constructive topics and if there’s individual feedback on how people contribute or communicate, let’s keep it direct to the people involved and constructive rather than argumentative. sarah ---
**Author:** ![Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Valery_K)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 11:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/6 "2015-08-29T11:33:09Z")
I do not care about his book, and I simply stated about a generality about that kind of books. Nothing judging the work behind it, thus not disrespecting it. Learn to read. Moreover users’ ML are made for users of a specific product, with questions/trouble about it, thus not made for self-promotion. What ever, except maybe coming from developers of the product, because they made it possible. ## If you are incapable of understanding or accepting others’ opinion, then you should follow you own advice and keep your fucking opinion to yourself. _B. R._ ---
**Author:** ![Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Valery_K)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/7 "2015-08-29T12:19:18Z")
Hi, please clam down. This mailing list has been created to discuss and announce anything related to nginx. This book certainly has relation to nginx so Valery did well when he announced it here. – Igor S. Discover best practices for building & delivering apps at scale. nginx.conf 2015: Sept. 22-24, San Francisco. [NGINX Conf 2019 Seattle - NGINX](http://nginx.com/nginxconf) ---
**Author:** ![Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Valery_K)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/8 "2015-08-30T00:46:26Z")
I am sorry to have bothered you all, that was meant to be a personal answer to ‘wishmaster [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)’… and I forgot to change the recipient address. ## End of this topic on my side. _B. R._ ---
**Author:** ![Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Valery_K)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/9 "2015-08-27T22:18:37Z")
[Intentionally top posted] Spoken by the self-important, pompous ass “B.R.” who has now taken on the title of “guardian of the mailing list”. Your referring to Valery as “anonymous” is more than a bit ironic, since you choose to go by initials that may or may not be real and he, like most of us, isn’t afraid to use his real name. Pot, kettle, black. Put them in a sentence for me. If you don’t understand English idiom that’s fine. Google it. As long as you are in charge of the mailing list now, how about you STOP top posting and using that horrible HTML email client that pisses off the rest of us who actually DO understand mailing list etiquette? On 8/27/15 1:03 PM, B.R. wrote: > /This mailing list is about discussing the (FOSS?) nginx product, not > > ``` > engineers who want to switch to Nginx or solidify their knowledge of > The work on this book was a new interesting journey for me and I > nginx mailing list > > ``` – Jim O. “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” - Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ee7513/32.png) [@Valery\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Valery_K)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-book-about-nginx/243160/10 "2015-08-31T23:47:25Z")
+1 (intentionally top-posted) I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the nginx team for all of their time and hard work that they’ve put into their product. I, for one, completely understand that it’s impossible to pay the bills with FOSS exclusively, and I welcome the occasional introduction to other products and services provided by the team that maintains the FOSS. Having said that, the aforementioned book seems like an excellent resource for nginx users, so this is not even an issue of promotion, but strictly of good, useful information IMO. As a matter of fact, I just ordered a copy of the book from Amazon. Igal Sapir Lucee Core Developer [Lucee.org](http://Lucee.org) [http://lucee.org/](http://lucee.org/)