<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><br></font></font></blockquote>Why is nginx outside of the challenge scope?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nginx or anything else are out of scope[1] at this time.</div><div>This will not prevent you to write a simple cache in (pure) Erlang for the challenge.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> If you want "to compare Erlang Web servers with other competitors (not written in Erlang)", surely nginx is one of the main competitors?</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Yes, but Nginx is written in C.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] I'm planning to ask the authors of the other tools (like Cherokee, Apache2, Lighttpd + Nginx, Varnish, ...)</div><div>and let them know about the challenge (with the same rules of course). </div></body></html>