Archive for July, 2010

Nginx-Fu: X-Accel-Redirect From Remote Servers

Posted by Alexey Kovyrin under Admin-tips, Development, Networks

We use nginx and its features a lot in Scribd. Many times in the last year we needed some pretty interesting, but not supported feature – we wanted nginx X-Accel-Redirect functionality to work with remote URLs. Out of the box nginx supports this functionality for local URIs only. In this short post I want to explain how did we make nginx serve remote content via X-Accel-Redirect.

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Cool Web Designer is Looking for Work

Posted by Alexey Kovyrin under Blog, General, Links

My wife – a good web designer with 6 years of experience with web design, HTML and CSS is looking for a job. Here is some information about her:

We’re physically located in Toronto, Canada, but she has a great experience of working remotely too. So, if you need a web designer or a junior web designer, feel free to contact Tanya.

Fwd: Scalexis Inc is Hiring

Posted by Alexey Kovyrin under My Projects

Scalexis Inc, web performance/scalability consulting firm in Toronto, is looking for a full-time consultant. Being a consulting company on the high-demand market of web application scalability consulting and high-performance web applications development, we need an employee that could perform both web application development and web application performance consulting work.
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