Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by hcnews on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:21PM (#19362946)

Curious, why not envoy (https://www.envoyproxy.io/)? Its open-source, used/supported by variety of companies, has more features than NGINX.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by coder543 on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:03PM (#19363308)

Envoy doesn't support static file serving: https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/378

I'm sure that's not the only feature it's missing compared to nginx. Envoy is not very comparable to nginx, in my opinion... but I also wouldn't reach for varnish as an nginx alternative either.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by vasilia on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:12PM (#19375088)

Envoy is not the web server, it's load balancer. If you want to serve static files It will be better to use any other software. Furthermore, it is a very complex problem for HTTPS servers, because the Linux kernel doesn’t have full-featured TLS support for sendfile syscall. I implemented daemon which is used as in-memory storage for static files and client for our proprietary web server. Trust me :)

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