Tengine
About Tengine
Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao. It has been used on large websites including Taobao.com, Tmall.com, Youku, AliExpress, Lazada and Alibaba Cloud. It has been an open source project since December 2011. It is developed by a team whose core members come from Taobao, Ant Group, Alibaba Cloud, Sogou and other internet companies. The project intends to evolve toward a general-purpose API gateway supporting multiple protocols.
Used for
- Dynamically reconfiguring servers, locations and upstreams without reloading or restarting worker processes
- Routing HTTP requests based on header, cookie, query and weights
- Forwarding HTTP CONNECT requests for forward proxy scenarios
- Sending unbuffered uploads directly to HTTP and FastCGI backend servers
- Offloading and accelerating SSL using QAT hardware
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