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About Trickster

Trickster offers an HTTP reverse proxy caching and dashboard query accelerator for time series databases. Trickster 2.x is a fully-featured HTTP Reverse Proxy Cache for applications like static file servers and web APIs. It includes features such as an ALB, time series DB acceleration, byte range caching, request rewriting and rules-based routing. Trickster is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a sandbox level project.

Products

  • Trickster 2.x: A fully-featured HTTP Reverse Proxy Cache for applications like static file servers and web APIs.

Used for

  • Improving dashboard chart rendering times by eliminating redundant computations.
  • Creating custom request routing and rewriting with Trickster's rules engine.
  • Balancing load across Time Series and generic HTTP endpoints using the Application Load Balancer.
  • Accelerating time series database queries.
  • Caching byte ranges of content.

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