Do you use nginx as a reverse proxy for your main node app? If so, can it double as a load balancer?

As the title says, do you use nginx as a reverse proxy for your main node app? If so, can it double as a load balancer?Basically my app is analytics related, so a huge amount of traffic will get sent to it. I'm wondering how best to handle this large server load.Should I have a load balancer before my nginx reverse proxy (with two or more nginx reverse proxies for redundancy)?Should I have multiple node apps behind the reverse proxy?So it might look like:load balancer -> reverse proxy -> reverse proxy -> node app -> node app Any thoughts appreciated.

Submitted February 28, 2016 at 12:45PM by no_comment_acc1