Alexander Krizhanovsky: Tempesta FW: yet another Linux kernel Web-accelerator ENG

Alexander Krizhanovsky / Russia. Moscow / CEO /Tempesta Technologies Alexander is founder and CEO at Tempesta Technologies Inc and lead developer of Tempesta FW. He's also CEO and founder of NatSys Lab., a company providing consultancy in high performance computing in Linux/x86-64 environment. Alexander has more than 10 years of experience in Linux kernel development. Tempesta FW: yet another Linux kernel Web-accelerator Tempesta FW is the first and only open source hybrid of its kind - both an HTTP accelerator (reverse proxy) and a multi-layer firewall. It is specially designed to deliver web content at top speed while providing maximum protection against a range of web application attacks. Tempesta FW is built into the Linux TCP/IP stack and implements lightweight in-memory database optimized for NUMA systems, Tempesta DB, used for Web content and firewall rules storage. Typical scenarios for Tempesta FW are HTTP layer DDoS mitigation and high performance Web