OpenResty is an

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distribution which includes the

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interpreter for

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scripts. The software was created by Yichun Zhang. It was originally sponsored by

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before 2011 and was mainly supported by

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from 2012 to 2016. Since 2017, it has been mainly supported by OpenResty Software Foundation and OpenResty Inc. 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.

History

In October 2007, OpenResty began at Yahoo! China as an

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written mostly in

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. In September 2009, OpenResty was redeveloped at

as ngx_openresty, a

application server based upon an extended repackaging of

and

with

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server extension

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s written in C.

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