Engine X was created in 2004 by a Russian developer Igor sizov as he was frustrated with a patchi and
wanted to build a replacement capable of handling 10000 concurrent connections worth the focus on performance.
I concurrency and low memory usage.
Today engine X serves the majority of the world's top 1000 websites and whilst this growth is largely
due to its performance it's also because engine X is relatively easy to get started with.
Of course it's by no means a simple piece of software but it's really good at making practical tasks
such as Kashima or video streaming.
Very easy to implement and there's a large number of first and third party modules which help extend
its core functionality.
I'm referring to engine X as a web server as this is what most people think of adair's and it's also
what this course will focus on engine X as a web server.
However it's important to understand that engine X is reverse proxy server at its core and it's because
of this design that it performs so well in the next video will take a look at what this means for us.
When working with engine X and how it compares to Apache.