Connect a React App to Nginx Reverse Proxy for Node Server with Docker Compose
Learn how to connect a custom React app to an Nginx reverse proxy for a Node server with Docker Compose. We will create the React app from scratch using Webpack and Express. We will also learn how to handle CORS related issues with Nginx.
Be Careful Setting Memory Limits for Docker Containers
Docker allows us to set memory limits for containers. However, it is important to be careful when setting memory limits as they can lead to system instability, containers shutting down, and other issues.
You should not be exposing your API servers if they are sitting behind a load balancer. This defeats the purpose of a load balancer. We will go over a demonstration using Docker Compose, Nginx, and a cluster of Node servers.
Learn about a process vs thread vs core including concurrent vs parallel program execution, logical vs physical cores, how threads run in a process, the structure of a process vs thread vs core, and how to show the processes, threads, and cores of a computer using the linux terminal.