I also suggest looking openresty based frameworks, it is non blocking I/O, but you can write procedural code normally and Nginx will handle events internally. T

I also suggest looking openresty based frameworks, it is non blocking I/O, but you can write procedural code normally and Nginx will handle events internally. That means no callback hell There's Lapis, by leafo http://leafo.net http://leafo.net And I'm also improving Nginx experience on the framework I develop, Sailor, because it was originally developed for Apache http://sailorproject.org http://sailorproject.org