Learning Load Balance with NGINX

Introduction

• A personal project I created to learn and improve my skills in:
  • NGINX
  • Docker & Docker Compose
  • DockerHub
  • Reverse Proxy
  • Web Server
  • Performance Benchmarks

Development Setup Local

1. Clone repository

git clone git@github.com:AlexGalhardo/learning-load-balance-with-nginx.git

2. Build containers and up databases & API servers

sudo docker-compose up --build -d

DDoS Attacks

• To test rest-postgres-api GET http://localhost/ endpoint

node start-get-rest-postgres-api-ddos-attack.mjs

• To test rest-postgres-api POST http://localhost/signup endpoint

node start-post-signup-rest-postgres-api-ddos-attack.mjs

See DDoS Attack Responses (reports) in responses/ folder

License

MIT

Copyright (c) April 2024-present, Alex Galhardo