NGINX and NGINX Plus are commonly used to enhance performance and fault tolerance by acting as a load balancer for many application servers, including Apache TomcatTM. To help customers get the most out of their Tomcat deployments, NGINX, Inc. has published a new deployment guide, Using NGINX and NGINX Plus to Load Balance Apache Tomcat Servers. This guide details how NGINX and NGINX Plus can be utilized as a load balancer and application delivery controller for Apache Tomcat application servers. Why NGINX and NGINX Plus? Many Apache Tomcat deployments use the Apache HTTP Server for application delivery, as specified in the Tomcat installation instructions. Apache HTTP Server’s thread-per-connection architecture delivers acceptable performance under low to medium load, but under heavy load the limitations of the architecture begin to surface. In one common scenario, the thread pool becomes exhausted when there is a large [ more… ]