Angie

Posted on Oct 7, 2022

Recently, was released the first version of https://angie.software/en/ - fork of the most popular web server Nginx. And it’s good news for everyone!

Let me explain. First of all, if its destiny will be the same as OpenSearch after it was forked from ElasticSearch, then we’ll see a massive improvement in the most annoying things in Nginx: Observability. You can’t just pull some prometheus metrics from your Nginx service and create some alerts. You must eat shit with Lua or strange .so files just for metrics in 2022. Complexity. It’s not an issue for me, but many of my colleagues have difficulties with the configuration and support of Nginx. And now, when we have that many alternatives like:

Envoy
Caddy
Traefik
Consul(as part of Hashicorp service mesh)

While F5 and Nginx are feeding us with promises, Envoy clearly knows what they want to claim next.

I love Nginx. It’s a great product of it’s time, but it needs to evolve, and Angie is an excellent opportunity to do that.