Some books provide insight, clear examples, interesting anecdotes, or helpful ways for people to extract meaning from the topic that would have been hard to acquire through simple internet searches. This book does NOT achieve these goals. This book feels like the effort of someone who was told that "to build their personal brand" it would be good if they had written a book and out popped this book. As just one such illustration of its comparative worthlessness, it has code examples which are immediately caveated as not really ready for use in a real environment and then the code -- which was likely cut and pasted from some non-book related source -- is not commented nor explained. It's as if the author is suggesting that by just staring at one more uncommented example (to which there are many on the Internet) the lights are suddenly supposed to come on? Very unlikely. In some cases there does seem to be a recognition that something is missing and the author states that those things left unexplained here will be explained later on as we get further along. Further along never comes.
Anyway, my strong suggestion is save your money. This book will get you less mileage at greater cost than your browser pointing to a few well honed google searches. I recognise that a topic as narrow and with such a small audience as NGINX isn't going to attract nobel laureates but even with diminished expectation this book came up short for me.
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