# Nginx, good for low-latency service on LAN?

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**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [April 13, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-good-for-low-latency-service-on-lan/186891 "2010-04-13T21:47:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![markh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@markh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markh)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-good-for-low-latency-service-on-lan/186891/1 "2010-04-13T21:47:54Z")

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nginx noob here… can I ask for a

I’m putting together a network metadata server to service  
a large render farm. My basic specs:

- the requests are simple: basically mapping a path-like  
string to a string of metadata:

- processing is fast: the cache will consist of  
in-memory dictionaries, and the processing is  
nothing more than looking up keys in the dictionary  
and returning the associated values.

- load is very high: this will be hit by lots of  
machines doing image rendering.

- I would like to code this in python if feasible.

- I will have a couple of boxes behind a load balancer  
for scalability.

Does this sound like a reasonable task for nginx?  
What’s the typical latency I might expect to see  
in a LAN environment, running on linux servers?

Any docs that are especially good to read?

Many thanks!  
Mark

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Mark H.  
Pixar Animation Studios

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**Author:** ![markh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@markh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markh)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-good-for-low-latency-service-on-lan/186891/2 "2010-04-13T23:03:25Z")

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On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 12:47 -0700, Mark H. wrote:

> - processing is fast: the cache will consist of  
> for scalability.
> 
> Does this sound like a reasonable task for nginx?  
> What’s the typical latency I might expect to see  
> in a LAN environment, running on linux servers?
> 
> Any docs that are especially good to read?

I think I’d be looking at the following stack:

Nginx + Memcached + Tornado

> **[GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki...](https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-wiki)**
>
> ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com

> **[Tornado Web Server — Tornado 6.6 documentation](https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/)**

> **[Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=nginx+memcached)**

Regards,  
Cliff