I already posted this some time ago, but let me insist on this one: Openresty (nginx+lua) is probably one of the most underrated technologies we have available

I already posted this some time ago, but let me insist on this one: Openresty (nginx+lua) is probably one of the most underrated technologies we have available nowadays. In my experience, every webapp can offload a ton of work(1) to openresty. The lua code is usually simpler and a lot faster that the equivalent code in the app. (1) think caching, auth/acl, security filters, stats, logging