Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by fcambus » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 8:07 AM UTC

Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features
tengine.taobao.org

Re: Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by tuananh » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 9:32 AM UTC

key selling point: dynamic module loading support (" You don't have to recompile Tengine when you want to add a new module")

Re: Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by continuations » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 10:10 AM UTC

How does this differ from OpenResty? They seem very similar. Both are based on Nginx, come from Alibaba, offer Lua scripting. So what's the difference?

Re: Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by zimpenfish » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 10:36 AM UTC

continuations wrote: post #3

How does this differ from OpenResty? They seem very similar. Both are based on Nginx, come from Alibaba, offer Lua scripting. So what's the difference?

+1 "Documentation isn't a bloody annoying zoom-in/out single page wiki insanity"

Re: Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by hartator » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 11:14 AM UTC

Seems pretty interesting. It seems like several clever hacks (module injections, LUA support, combining css/js...) packaged into a soft.

Re: Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by Bjoern » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 11:25 AM UTC

Anyone here using this in Production who could comment if using Tengine makes sense over vanilla NGinx and workarounds?

Re: Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by igl » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 11:36 AM UTC

Very interesting. First Chinese OS project i see posted here.

Re: Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by lmz » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 11:39 AM UTC

continuations wrote: post #3

How does this differ from OpenResty? They seem very similar. Both are based on Nginx, come from Alibaba, offer Lua scripting. So what's the difference?

OpenResty seems to be a bundle of nginx add-ons, while Tengine is a fork. Also, tengine has DSO loading.

Re: Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by jlebrech » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 11:48 AM UTC

lmz wrote: post #8

continuations wrote: post #3

How does this differ from OpenResty? They seem very similar. Both are based on Nginx, come from Alibaba, offer Lua scripting. So what's the difference?

OpenResty seems to be a bundle of nginx add-ons, while Tengine is a fork. Also, tengine has DSO loading.

and would scripts written for openresty work for tengine?

Re: Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features

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Post by nefasti » Thu, Aug 22, 2013, 11:56 AM UTC

Older discussion here on Hacker news including comments from the project leader explaining the reasons for the fork : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3645055

(I see a correlation of the reason with the recent news on ngingx plus, but that can be only mind tricks)