Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. Cached content means data is served locally and users will see this through faster download speeds with frequently-used content.

Squid - HTTP reverse proxy optimizes web delivery

This project comprises the core C++ HTTP abstractions used at Facebook. Internally, it is used as the basis for building many HTTP servers, proxies, and clients. This release focuses on the common HTTP abstractions and our simple HTTPServer framework. Future releases will provide simple client APIs as well. The framework supports HTTP/1.1, SPDY/3, SPDY/3.1, and HTTP/2. The goal is to provide a simple, performant, and modern C++ HTTP library.

Proxygen - Facebook's C++ HTTP framework

fabio is a fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) and TCP router for deploying applications managed by consul.Register your services in consul, provide a health check and fabio will start routing traffic to them. No configuration required. Deployment, upgrading and refactoring has never been easier. It integrates with Consul, Vault, Amazon ELB, Amazon API Gateway and more.

fabio - A fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices managed by consul

Træfik (pronounced like traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rancher, Amazon ECS, and a lot more) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.

Træfik (pronounced like traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rancher, Amazon ECS, and a lot more) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.

Trafik - A Modern Reverse Proxy

Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached (http://memcached.org/) deployments. It's a core component of cache infrastructure at Facebook and Instagram where mcrouter handles almost 5 billion requests per second at peak.Mcrouter is developed and maintained by Facebook.

 Mcrouter - Memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments

H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU utilization when compared to older generation of web servers. Designed from ground-up, the server takes full advantage of HTTP/2 features including prioritized content serving and server push, promising outstanding experience to the visitors of your web site. 

H2O - the optimized HTTP/1, HTTP/2 server

mitmproxy is an interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers. mitmproxy is an interactive, SSL-capable intercepting proxy with a console interface. mitmdump is the command-line version of mitmproxy. Think tcpdump for HTTP. mitmweb is a web-based interface for mitmproxy. 

mitmproxy -  Intercept HTTP traffic for penetration testing

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture. 

Varnish - Web Application Accelerator.

Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao, the largest e-commerce website in Asia. It is based on the Nginx HTTP server and has many advanced features. Tengine has proven to be very stable and efficient on some of the top 100 websites in the world, including taobao.com and tmall.com.
 
It includes all features of nginx-1.8.1 and it is 100% compatible with nginx, Dynamic module loading support. You don't need to recompile Tengine when adding new modules to it, HTTP/2 support, Sends unbuffered upload directly to HTTP and FastCGI backend servers, which saves disk I/Os, More load balancing methods and lot more.

Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao, the largest e-commerce website in Asia. It is based on the Nginx HTTP server and has many advanced features. Tengine has proven to be very stable and efficient on some of the top 100 websites in the world, including taobao.com and tmall.com.

tengine - A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features

OpenResty is a full-fledged web platform that integrates the standard Nginx core, LuaJIT, many carefully written Lua libraries, lots of high quality 3rd-party Nginx modules, and most of their external dependencies. It is designed to help developers easily build scalable web applications, web services, and dynamic web gateways.
 
By taking advantage of various well-designed Nginx modules (most of which are developed by the OpenResty team themselves), OpenResty effectively turns the nginx server into a powerful web app server, in which the web developers can use the Lua programming language to script various existing nginx C modules and Lua modules and construct extremely high-performance web applications that are capable to handle 10K ~ 1000K+ connections in a single box.

OpenResty is a full-fledged web platform that integrates the standard Nginx core, LuaJIT, many carefully written Lua libraries, lots of high quality 3rd-party Nginx modules, and most of their external dependencies. It is designed to help developers easily build scalable web applications, web services, and dynamic web gateways.

OpenResty - Turning Nginx into a Full-Fledged Scriptable Web Platform

Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. It supports accelerated reverse proxying with caching, simple load balancing and fault tolerance, SSL and TLS SNI support, Name-based and IP-based virtual servers and lot more.

Nginx - HTTP and reverse proxy server

Kong is a cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway, API Middleware or in some cases Service Mesh). Backed by the battle-tested NGINX with a focus on high performance, Kong was made available as an open-source platform in 2015. Under active development, Kong is used in production at thousands of organizations from startups, Global 5000 and Government organizations.
 
If you are building for web, mobile or IoT (Internet of Things) you will likely end up needing common functionality to run your actual software. Kong can help by acting as a gateway (or a sidecar) for microservices requests while providing load balancing, logging, authentication, rate-limiting and more through plugins.
 
Its features include: 
<ul>
<li>Cloud-Native: Platform agnostic, Kong can run from bare metal to
Kubernetes.</li>
<li>Dynamic Load Balancing: Load balance traffic across multiple backend
services.</li>
<li>Service Discovery: Resolve SRV records in third-party DNS resolvers like
Consul.</li>
<li>Serverless: Invoke and secure AWS Lambda or OpenWhisk fuctions directly
from Kong.</li>
<li>WebSockets: Communicate to your upstream services via WebSockets.</li>
<li>OAuth2.0: Easily add OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs.</li>
<li>Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over HTTP, TCP, UDP,
or to disk.</li>
<li>Security: ACL, Bot detection, whitelist/blacklist IPs, etc...</li>
<li>Syslog: Logging to System log.</li>
<li>SSL: Setup a Specific SSL Certificate for an underlying service or API.</li>
<li>Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server
metrics.</li>
<li>Authentications: HMAC, JWT, Basic, and more.</li>
<li>Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on many variables.</li>
<li>Transformations: Add, remove, or manipulate HTTP requests and responses.</li>
<li>Caching: Cache and serve responses at the proxy layer.</li>
<li>CLI: Control your Kong cluster from the command line.</li>
<li>REST API: Kong can be operated with its RESTful API for maximum
flexibility.</li>
<li>Geo-Replicated: Configs are always up-to-date across different regions.</li>
<li>Failure Detection &amp; Recovery: Kong is unaffected if one of your Cassandra
nodes goes down.</li>
<li>Clustering: All Kong nodes auto-join the cluster keeping their config
updated across nodes.</li>
<li>Scalability: Distributed by nature, Kong scales horizontally by simply
adding nodes.</li>
<li>Performance: Kong handles load with ease by scaling and using NGINX at
the core.</li>
<li>Plugins: Extendable architecture for adding functionality to Kong and
APIs.</li>
</ul>

Kong is a cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway, API Middleware or in some cases Service Mesh). Backed by the battle-tested NGINX with a focus on high performance, Kong was made available as an open-source platform in 2015. Under active development, Kong is used in production at thousands of organizations from startups, Global 5000 and Government organizations.

Kong - The Microservice API Gateway 

A reverse proxy and static file server that provides authentication using Providers (Google, GitHub, and others) to validate accounts by email, domain or group.



Oauth2 Proxy - A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers

Html-Speed is a reverse proxy, It is used for accelerating performance of websites by
improving page load speed and reducing load on webservers. This is achieved by applying front-end optimizations to both static and dynamic content and by optimizing the caching of resources.

HtmlSpeed - Frontend HTML Accelarator for Websites

ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel between from a public endpoint to a locally running web service. ngrok captures and analyzes all traffic over the tunnel for later inspection and replay. You can give this URL to anyone to allow them to try out a web site you're developing without doing any deployment.
 
It helps to temporarily share a website that is only running on your development machine, Debugging and understanding any web service by inspecting the HTTP traffic, Running networked services on machines that are firewalled off from the internet.

ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel between from a public endpoint to a locally running web service. ngrok captures and analyzes all traffic over the tunnel for later inspection and replay. You can give this URL to anyone to allow them to try out a web site you're developing without doing any deployment.


ngrok - Introspected tunnels to localhost

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