Mission of OpenResty Inc.
- Make it easy to do high throughput and dynamic Internet applications.
- Have machines program tedious business systems for humans.
- Make Internet business logic easy to change by everyone.
- Keep humans focused on expressing and managing business level knowledge.
- Retain clean separation of technical implementations and representations of business logic.
- Make it easy to compare and swap the technical stacks used in business systems.
History of OpenResty®
- 2007
Born as an API platform for a major Internet search engine - 2009 ~ 2011
Began serving the data analytics platform of a major e-Commerce site - 2012
Began serving the global gateway of a large US based CDN company - 2014
Yearly downloads grew six times, over 550,000 - 2015
Rated as one of the TOP 10 most popular web servers on the Internet - Late 2015
Held the first OpenResty Con in Beijing, China - Early 2017
OpenResty Inc. incorporated in the U.S. - Mid-2017
More than 230,000 Internet websites running OpenResty® - Aug 2017
Launched OpenResty Edge™, the first commercial product
