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

93 points by fcambus 13y ago

tuananh 13y ago
key selling point: dynamic module loading support (" You don't have to recompile Tengine when you want to add a new module")
continuations 13y ago
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?
- zimpenfish 13y ago
  +1 "Documentation isn't a bloody annoying zoom-in/out single page wiki insanity"
  - threedaymonk 13y ago
    Wow. I hadn't seen OpenResty before, but I don't think I could bear to fight through that website to get to information.
- lmz 13y ago
  OpenResty seems to be a bundle of nginx add-ons, while Tengine is a fork. Also, tengine has DSO loading.
  - jlebrech 13y ago
    and would scripts written for openresty work for tengine?
    - nefasti 13y ago
      From the page (All features of Nginx-1.2.9 are inherited, i.e. it is 100% compatible with Nginx.) My guess would be if the scripts are compatible with Ngingx-1.2.9 it should work.
      - snapoutofit 13y ago
        Yeah, it looks like 1.2.9 with a bunch of additional modules! I like the sysguard module.
hartator 13y ago
Seems pretty interesting. It seems like several clever hacks (module injections, LUA support, combining css/js...) packaged into a soft.
Bjoern 13y ago
Anyone here using this in Production who could comment if using Tengine makes sense over vanilla NGinx and workarounds?
- cpursley 13y ago
  Interested as well.
igl 13y ago
Very interesting. First Chinese OS project i see posted here.
nefasti 13y ago
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 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)
- rdtsc 13y ago
  ---- key quote from the above discussion ---- We asked how to collaborate with them. Their replied as following: "It's interesting what you guys do and let's keep in touch. I'm not really quite sure right away in regards to what can be imported to the main branch, but hopefully we'll find things to collaborate on. We're a bit busy towards the end of the year, so probably a good idea to catch up in January." More than two months have passed. We are still waiting for their requests. We are very confused ... ---- Seems reasonable to me. These people are running one of the largest websites out there, the project is open source, they seem to have put a reasonable effort into merging the changes back in, they were ignored. They could have just kept the changes internally but they decided to share. Good for them!
cpursley 13y ago
Interesting, I've been working on a nginx buildpack for Heroku/Dokku/Flynn optimized for static sites. I should create a Tengine fork to benchmark with nginx. https://github.com/cpursley/buildpack-nginx-js https://github.com/cpursley/buildpack-nginx-js
excitom 13y ago
So, they're basically adding the features from Apache ...

93 points by fcambus 13y ago

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

continuations 13y ago

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?

zimpenfish 13y ago
+1 "Documentation isn't a bloody annoying zoom-in/out single page wiki insanity"
- threedaymonk 13y ago
  Wow. I hadn't seen OpenResty before, but I don't think I could bear to fight through that website to get to information.
lmz 13y ago
OpenResty seems to be a bundle of nginx add-ons, while Tengine is a fork. Also, tengine has DSO loading.
- jlebrech 13y ago
  and would scripts written for openresty work for tengine?
  - nefasti 13y ago
    From the page (All features of Nginx-1.2.9 are inherited, i.e. it is 100% compatible with Nginx.) My guess would be if the scripts are compatible with Ngingx-1.2.9 it should work.
    - snapoutofit 13y ago
      Yeah, it looks like 1.2.9 with a bunch of additional modules! I like the sysguard module.

hartator 13y ago

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

Bjoern 13y ago

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

cpursley 13y ago
Interested as well.

igl 13y ago

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

nefasti 13y ago

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 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)

rdtsc 13y ago
---- key quote from the above discussion ---- We asked how to collaborate with them. Their replied as following: "It's interesting what you guys do and let's keep in touch. I'm not really quite sure right away in regards to what can be imported to the main branch, but hopefully we'll find things to collaborate on. We're a bit busy towards the end of the year, so probably a good idea to catch up in January." More than two months have passed. We are still waiting for their requests. We are very confused ... ---- Seems reasonable to me. These people are running one of the largest websites out there, the project is open source, they seem to have put a reasonable effort into merging the changes back in, they were ignored. They could have just kept the changes internally but they decided to share. Good for them!

cpursley 13y ago

Interesting, I've been working on a nginx buildpack for Heroku/Dokku/Flynn optimized for static sites. I should create a Tengine fork to benchmark with nginx. https://github.com/cpursley/buildpack-nginx-js https://github.com/cpursley/buildpack-nginx-js

excitom 13y ago

So, they're basically adding the features from Apache ...