NGINX is built to offer low memory usage and high concurrency. Rather than creating new processes for each web request, NGINX uses an asynchronous, event-driven approach where requests are handled in a single thread.
One master process can control multiple worker processes. The master maintains the worker processes, while the workers do the actual processing. All the processes are get in to an event loop along with other connections and are managed asynchronously without blocking other requests
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