Application Servers

Application servers are servers that serve our web application code. Some of them might be able to handle real traffic directly, and some might come with some limitations compared to traditional web servers. Lack of protection from slow clients or way slower serving of static assets are examples of where these servers come short.Since learning about web servers in general, we saw how to deploy NGINX to handle TLS certificates and static assets. We also learned how to proxy a request both as a TCP and UNIX socket. At this point, the application server will take over the processing and pass back a reply that will be passed by NGINX back to the client.