NGINX Microcaching: Full-Page Caching Without Varnish

Technical Briefing: NGINX Microcaching — Varnish-Style Full-Page Caching with Stock Directives The Problem Full-page caching typically means standing up a second daemon (Varnish), a second port, and a second configuration language alongside NGINX. That operational overhead is real: an extra process to monitor, an extra config surface to maintain, and an extra hop in the request path. The question this technique answers is whether the common case — serving mostly-anonymous pages fast and shieldi…