Alibaba Cloud Developer

Feb 8, 2018 · Backend Development

How Tengine Boosts HTTPS Performance with Intel QAT Async Acceleration

This article explains how Alibaba’s lightweight web server Tengine leverages Intel QuickAssist Technology to offload SSL operations via an async ssl_async module, detailing its architecture, integration with OpenSSL, performance gains across various cipher suites, and the resulting multi‑fold increase in HTTPS throughput.