disable gzip and connection pooling

Author: Rider-Linden

src/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf.template

@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ server {
 
 upstream app {
   server {{ .Env.UPSTREAM_SERVER }};
-  keepalive {{ .Env.KEEPALIVE_CONNECTIONS }};
-  keepalive_requests {{ .Env.KEEPALIVE_REQUESTS }};
-  keepalive_timeout {{ .Env.KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT }}s;
+  # Temporarily disable connection pooling to test performance
+  # keepalive {{ .Env.KEEPALIVE_CONNECTIONS }};
+  # keepalive_requests {{ .Env.KEEPALIVE_REQUESTS }};
+  # keepalive_timeout {{ .Env.KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT }}s;
 }
 
 server {

src/etc/nginx/includes/uwsgi.conf.template

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 uwsgi_pass app;
 uwsgi_param HTTP_X_REQUEST_ID $request_id;
 uwsgi_param HTTP_HOST $host;
-uwsgi_param CONNECTION "";          # Clear Connection header for keepalive
+# uwsgi_param CONNECTION "";          # Clear Connection header for keepalive (disabled)
 include uwsgi_params;
 uwsgi_read_timeout {{ .Env.WSGI_TIMEOUT }};
 uwsgi_send_timeout {{ .Env.WSGI_TIMEOUT }};

src/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.template

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ http {
     keepalive_timeout  {{ .Env.KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT }};
 
     # Enable gzip compression for better performance
-    gzip on;
+    gzip off;
     gzip_vary on;
     gzip_min_length 1024;
     gzip_comp_level 6;