Automattic/vip-quickstart — pull request #243 by rinatkhaziev (2014-08-06 00:23:41+00:00)
Title: Updated nginx site config template to not try to rewrite 404'd static assets uri (css/js/png/jpg) to WP

The reason for this is that in a situation where you have a bunch of not existing assets to be requested, each of them will be rewritten to a request to WP, and this is not a desirable behavior since it slooooows things down