We’re glad to announce that Tengine (http://tengine.taobao.org), our
home-baked Nginx at Taobao now becomes an open source project.
Taobao (http://www.taobao.com) is the largest e-commerce website in Asia
and ranked #12 on Alexas top global sites list. Our website serves
billions of page views per day. For busy website as us, Nginx is
obviously
the best choice. Thanks to Nginx’s high performance, small footprint and
flexibility, we have done more with less.
We first learned the Nginx internals by using it as a traditional web
server and developing dozens of modules. Then from June of this year we
started hacking the Nginx core to expand its capabilities. As some of
the
features we have developed may also benefit other Nginx users and
websites,
so why not open source them? We do not want to be just open source
software
users, but also open source contributors. That’s why the Tengine open
source project came out.
Tengine is based on the latest stable version of Nginx (Nginx-1.0.10).
Here
are a few features and bug fixes you may be interested in Tengine:
Logging enhancement. It supports syslog (local and remote) and pipe
logging. You can also do log sampling, i.e. not all requests have to be
written.
Protects the server when the system load and memory use goes high.
Combines multiple CSS or JavasScript requests into one request to
reduce
the downloading time.
Sets the worker process number and CPU affinities automatically.
Setting
Nginx’s worker_cpu_affinity is not a pain any more.
Enhanced limit_req module with whitelist support and more limit_req
directives in one location.
More operations engineer friendly server information, so host can be
located easily when error happens.
More command lines support. You can list all modules compiled in and
the
directives supported, even the content of configuration file itself.
Set expiration for files according to specific content type.
We want to say thank you to the Nginx team, especially to Igor. Thank
you
very much for your great work! We would love to donate the patches
against
the Nginx-1.1 branch later if you think the patches are okay.
Frankly, I’m not sure whether the features in Tengine right now can
impress
you guys or not. It’s the first step we moving towards open source after
all. We have built a team working on Tengine and have quite a long to-do
list. I promise you more enhancements are coming out.
Combines multiple CSS or JavasScript requests into one request to
reduce
the downloading time.
This feature would impress me for sure. Right now I am glueing
javascript/css files using the PHP script, but I’d love to have internal
server-support for this. Also, features like 2) and 4) are very
interesting, too. I wonder what nginx authors think of this.
The requested URL /download/tengine-1.2.0.tar.gz was not found on this
server.
SVN checkout works though
The one complain I have to make about your release is that you’re simply
“dumping” lots of code without using version control system properly
(one
commit per change), which makes cherry-picking impossible and code
review
much less fun than it should be.
The requested URL /download/tengine-1.2.0.tar.gz was not found on this
server.
Thank you, the link is OK now.
SVN checkout works though
The one complain I have to make about your release is that you’re simply
“dumping” lots of code without using version control system properly (one
commit per change), which makes cherry-picking impossible and code review
much less fun than it should be.
Good point and I agree. We all post the changes to this maillist patch
by
patch. Thanks.
This feature would impress me for sure. Right now I am glueing
javascript/css files using the PHP script, but I’d love to have internal
server-support for this. Also, features like 2) and 4) are very
interesting, too. I wonder what nginx authors think of this.
i’d like to see such feature in “original” nginx too.
We’re glad to announce that Tengine (http://tengine.taobao.org), our
home-baked Nginx at Taobao now becomes an open source project.
Thanks for releasing this! I’ll probably play around with it over the
weekend if I find the time.
Logging enhancement. It supports syslog (local and remote) and pipe
logging. You can also do log sampling, i.e. not all requests have to be
written.
This sound very interesting. The “documentation” link on the site
doesn’t
work so is there any description how to configure these new logging
features available somewhere? I’m specifically interested in the remote
syslogging and the log sampling which is useful for statistical analysis
on
high traffic web sites.
Regards,
Dennis
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