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Engine X was created in 2004 by a Russian developer Igor sizov as he was frustrated with a patchi and

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wanted to build a replacement capable of handling 10000 concurrent connections worth the focus on performance.

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I concurrency and low memory usage.

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Today engine X serves the majority of the world's top 1000 websites and whilst this growth is largely

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due to its performance it's also because engine X is relatively easy to get started with.

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Of course it's by no means a simple piece of software but it's really good at making practical tasks

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such as Kashima or video streaming.

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Very easy to implement and there's a large number of first and third party modules which help extend

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its core functionality.

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I'm referring to engine X as a web server as this is what most people think of adair's and it's also

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what this course will focus on engine X as a web server.

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However it's important to understand that engine X is reverse proxy server at its core and it's because

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of this design that it performs so well in the next video will take a look at what this means for us.

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When working with engine X and how it compares to Apache.