OpenResty

OpenResty is a web platform based on nginx which can run Lua scripts using its LuaJIT engine.[1] The software was created by Yichun Zhang. It was originally sponsored by Taobao before 2011 and was mainly supported by Cloudflare from 2012 to 2016. Since 2017, it has been mainly supported by OpenResty Software Foundation and OpenResty Inc.

OpenResty
Other namesngx_openresty
Original author(s)Yichun Zhang
Developer(s)
  • OpenResty Software Foundation
  • OpenResty, Inc.
Initial release2009 (2009)
Stable release
1.15.8.3 / March 20, 2020 (2020-03-20)
Preview release
1.19.3.1rc1 / October 24, 2020 (2020-10-24)
Repository
Written inC
PredecessorPerl OpenResty
LicenseBSD licenses
Websiteopenresty.org/en/ 

OpenResty is designed to build scalable web applications, web services, and dynamic web gateways. The OpenResty architecture is based on several nginx modules which have been extended in order to expand nginx into a web app server to handle large number of requests. The concept of the OpenResty solution aims to run server-side web app completely in the nginx server, leveraging nginx event model to do non-blocking I/O not only with the HTTP clients, but also with remote backends like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached, and Redis.

References
  1. "WTF is OpenResty? The world's fifth-most-used Web server, that's what!". The Register. Retrieved 28 February 2020.


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