Wouldn't you be throwing away your ability to add a caching layer. I guess their are ngx modules for Memcache/Redis but coding even a simple api in nginx.conf

Wouldn't you be throwing away your ability to add a caching layer. I guess their are ngx modules for Memcache/Redis but coding even a simple api in nginx.conf can get difficult? I still like the idea of nginx being able to communicate with different datastores. For example, let's say you want to serve a file but it requires authentication, you can pass some signed request via query string and cross check it in session in redis/postgres wherever.