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Welcome to Scalable Stories—the podcast where our hosts explore the nuances of web performance, security, and scalable infrastructures. Learn how to optimize your servers with tools like NGINX modules by GetPageSpeed, Varnish Cache, and leverage platforms like RHEL and Rocky Linux for robust deployments.

Each episode offers insights into enhancing server efficiency, speeding up websites, and fortifying against security threats. Whether you’re a developer, sysadmin, or tech enthusiast, join us to unlock the secrets of scalable and secure web architectures.

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  • Wednesday · 10 min

    PHP2Shell on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and RHEL 8/9/10: Check and Patch

    Technical Briefing: PHP2Shell on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and RHEL 8/9/10 (Runbook Edition) Todays source is the same GetPageSpeed article on patching PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) that the 2026-11-09 and 2026-11-10 briefings covered. Tho

  • Sunday · 14 min

    CVE-2026-80668 on CentOS 7: Fixed Kernel for EL7

    Technical Briefing: CVE-2026-80668, a Netfilter Conntrack Use-After-Free, and the Fixed Kernel for CentOS 7 Todays source is a GetPageSpeed article on CVE-2026-80668, a use-after-free in Linux netfilter conntrack expectation handling. It covers which Cen

  • Saturday · 9 min

    Remi PHP Extended Support: Security Updates for CentOS 7

    Technical Briefing: Extended PHP Support for CentOS 7 (Remi Drop-in Replacement) Todays source is a GetPageSpeed article on in-place PHP security updates for CentOS 7 servers that run Remi PHP packages. Earlier briefings covered the PHP2Shell vulnerabili

  • October 25 · 12 min

    NGINX Automatic Image Conversion: WebP and AVIF

    Technical Briefing: Automatic WebP/AVIF Conversion in NGINX with ngximmerse Todays source is a GetPageSpeed article about ngximmerse, an NGINX filter module. When the browser supports WebP or AVIF, the module converts JPEG, PNG and GIF responses on the f

  • October 24 · 12 min

    PHP2Shell on CentOS 7: Patched PHP 5.6 to 8.4

    Technical Briefing: Patched PHP 5.6–8.4 for CentOS 7 Against PHP2Shell Todays source is a GetPageSpeed article about PHP2Shell on CentOS 7. A recent briefing covered GetPageSpeeds free patched PHP 7.4 for Ubuntu 20.04. This article covers the CentOS 7 si

  • October 23 · 10 min

    PHP2Shell on Ubuntu 20.04: Patched PHP 7.4 Without Ubuntu Pro

    Technical Briefing: Free Patched PHP 7.4 for Ubuntu 20.04 Against PHP2Shell Todays source is a GetPageSpeed article about a gap left by PHP2Shell, a pair of critical remote code execution flaws in PHP. On Ubuntu 20.04 (focal), the official fix is availab

  • October 22 · 11 min

    Ask Your AI Agent About Your NGINX Servers: Amplify MCP

    Technical Briefing: Amplify Adds a Hosted, Read-Only MCP Server for NGINX Monitoring Data Todays source is a GetPageSpeed article on a new capability in Amplify, GetPageSpeeds existing NGINX monitoring service. Amplify now offers a hosted MCP (Model Cont

  • October 21 · 10 min

    NGINX XSLT Module: Transform XML Responses into HTML

    Technical Briefing: Rendering XML as HTML at the Edge with NGINXs XSLT Filter Module Todays source is a GetPageSpeed article on ngxhttpxsltfiltermodule, an established NGINX module rather than a new release. It applies XSLT stylesheets at the web-server

  • October 20 · 11 min

    NGINX JSONP: Safe Cross-Origin APIs with the XSS Module

    Technical Briefing: Safe JSONP in NGINX with ngxhttpxssmodule Todays source is a GetPageSpeed article on ngxhttpxssmodule, an established NGINX module from the xss-nginx-module project. The module generates JSONP responses and validates the callback name

  • October 18 · 9 min

    How We Made NGINX Vary Cache Purges 1000× Faster

    Technical Briefing: ngxcachepurge 2.7.0 Speeds Up Purges of Varyd Cache Entries Todays source is a GetPageSpeed article about version 2.7.0 of the ngxcachepurge NGINX module, which is already in use. The release adds a shared-memory variant index. It mak

  • October 17 · 11 min

    ngx_pagespeed Won’t Build on Modern NGINX? Install It

    Technical Briefing: ngxpagespeed on Modern NGINX (Operational Reference) The 2026-10-16 and 2026-10-17 briefings covered why the classic build fails and walked through the packaged fix. Todays source is the same GetPageSpeed article with no new developme

  • October 13 · 10 min

    Brotli Compression for Varnish 6.0 LTS: vmod-brotli Now Packaged

    Technical Briefing: Brotli Compression for Varnish 6.0 LTS with vmod-brotli The Problem Open-source Varnish only supports gzip. Brotli is a paid feature in Varnish Enterprise. Uplexs open-source fetch processor, libvfp-brotli, only targets Varnish 6.2 an

  • October 12 · 13 min

    How to Enable NGINX HTTP/3 on Ubuntu and Debian

    Technical Briefing: Enabling HTTP/3 in NGINX on Ubuntu and Debian The Problem Stock binaries cant do HTTP/3 Stock nginx from the Debian and Ubuntu archives is built without --with-httpv3module. The ondrej/nginx PPA also lacks it on current LTS releases.

  • October 12 · 11 min

    NGINX Immutable Module: Far-Future Cache-Control Headers

    Technical Briefing: Far-Future Cache-Control for Versioned Assets with the NGINX Immutable Module The Problem Cache-busted assets such as /assets/app.a3f2c9.css carry a content hash in the URL, so a given URLs content cannot change. Browsers still revali

  • October 10 · 11 min

    NGINX slow_start: Gradual Upstream Ramp-Up Without Plus

    Technical Briefing: slowstart Comes to Open-Source NGINX The Problem NGINX Plus has shipped a server slowstart parameter since 2015. It ramps traffic to a freshly-live upstream from zero to full weight over a configurable window. Open-source NGINX never

  • October 9 · 13 min

    aws-lc NGINX in 2026: Why we still ship quictls

    Technical Briefing: NGINX TLS Backends — aws-lc Support, quictls Backports, and the OpenSSL 3.5 LTS Migration The Problem NGINXs TLS backend options have been constrained by two separate issues: compile-time incompatibilities with aws-lc, and the end-of-

  • October 8 · 11 min

    NGINX Dynamic TLS Records: An Honest Benchmark in 2026

    Technical Briefing: NGINX Dynamic TLS Records — An Honest Benchmark in 2026 The Problem NGINXs default sslbuffersize is 16 KB, and each TLS record of that size straddles roughly 12 TCP segments. On a lossy link, if a single segment drops, the receiver ca

  • October 6 · 8 min

    NGINX limit_req Per Hour, Day, Week, Month with NGINX-MOD

    Technical Briefing: Sub-Hourly NGINX Rate Limits with NGINX-MOD The Problem Stock NGINX limitreqzone accepts only two rate units: r/s and r/m. A directive like rate=10r/h fails nginx -t with invalid rate, because the parser matches only those two suffixe

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