I started using lua(jit) with nginx over the past year, with more work recently. The work by agentzh[1] with the lua nginx module and the openresty stuff was ve

I started using lua(jit) with nginx over the past year, with more work recently. The work by agentzh[1] with the lua nginx module and the openresty stuff was very useful. Being able to tweak the behavior of nginx with a full-featured programming language is very useful. I just finished using it to build realtime stat tracking and a websockets server to display that data to web clients[2][3]. Additionally I've done some work with custom processing in a reverse proxy and handing case-insensitive URLs. Overall I've found it very comfortable to use and fast, but a little more barebones than something like python. In my use cases, the speed and low overhead has been more than worth it. [1] https://github.com/agentzh https://github.com/agentzh [2] https://sublime.wbond.net https://sublime.wbond.net [3] https://github.com/wbond/sublime.wbond.net/tree/master/realtime https://github.com/wbond/sublime.wbond.net/tree/master/realt...