What is Kore?
Kore is an easy to use web application framework for writing scalable web APIs in C. Its main goals are security, scalability and allowing rapid development and deployment of such APIs. Because of this Kore is an ideal candidate for building robust, scalable and secure web things.
Kore is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
Kore is an open source tool with 3.6K GitHub stars and 316 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kore's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Kore?
Pros of Kore
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Kore's Features
- Supports SNI
- Supports SPDY/3.1
- Supports HTTP/1.1
- Websocket support
- Lightweight background tasks
- Built-in parameter validation
- Only HTTPS connections allowed
- Multiple modules can be loaded at once
- Built-in asynchronous PostgreSQL support
- Default sane TLS ciphersuites (PFS in all major browsers)
- Load your web application as a precompiled dynamic library
- Modules can be reloaded on-the-fly, even while serving content
- Event driven (epoll/kqueue) architecture with per CPU core workers
Kore Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kore?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.
Microsoft IIS
Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.
OpenResty
OpenResty (aka. ngx_openresty) is a full-fledged web application server by bundling the standard Nginx core, lots of 3rd-party Nginx modules, as well as most of their external dependencies.
