Angie 1 Year!#
Today, July 21, Angie celebrates its first birthday. We are launching blogs on various platforms to introduce you to how we are doing.
Good day, colleagues, clients, partners!
In July 2022, gathering a team of leading engineers who worked on the development and support of the NGINX web server, we founded our company — "Web-Server" and began the development of Angie — a Russian open-source web server. Today, July 21, Angie celebrates its first birthday. We are launching blogs on various platforms to introduce you to how we are doing.
Here is a brief report on what we have accomplished over the year.
In the fall of 2022, the "Web-Server" team released the open-source version of Angie. It was created as a fork of NGINX — the most popular and familiar web server to us, but it is also an independent project that is regularly updated with new features. Thus, the domestic web server already supports the HTTP/3 protocol.
But the essence of Angie is not in copying: we are making our web server more reliable, economical, and faster. Statistics collection allows us to respond promptly to resource overuse, errors, and attacks; session binding and DNS server updates help balance the load in modern infrastructure. We are currently adding active checks of balanced servers and configuration management to improve fault tolerance and simplify administration.
The Angie team considers the open-source version to be one of the most important areas of its work — we are also participants in an experiment to create a Russian repository, alongside such giants of the Russian IT market as Basalt, Red Soft, and T1 Innovations.
We have something to offer corporate clients as well. In the spring of 2023, we released Angie PRO — the only commercial Russian web server that has compatibility certificates with domestic operating systems RED OS, Astra Linux Special Edition, and Alt Server 10. Another development of ours — Angie Ingress Controller (ANIC) — is a solution for managing traffic of containerized applications in Kubernetes using the Ingress Controller.
Our goal is to meet the technological needs of the Russian market. Both the paid and open versions of the web server are provided with Russian-language documentation and support; we also plan to add encryption according to GOST. In our repositories, we publish ready-made packages for various operating systems and hardware platforms, including domestic ones, as well as popular dynamic modules that complement the core functionality of the web server.
But this is just the beginning. We will definitely surprise you. More than once, and not just twice.
In this blog, we will talk about how the Russian IT market works (and not only works, but also fails, stutters, and hangs), we will share our experiences working with clients from China (yes, we have that too), and share technical expertise — not only will we tell you how product development is progressing, but we will also eventually integrate a tech support chat here.
We will also provide links to our job openings (developers and more, welcome — we have very strong expertise in what we do) and talk about projects we find interesting and about media. We prefer PR that is thoughtful, not overwhelming.
It will be interesting, friends!
Best regards, the Angie team