OpenResty Reviews and Details

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• Native Acme Support Comes to Nginx

  Well you say that.... https://openresty.org/en/ "Real-world applications of OpenResty® range from dynamic web portals and web gateways, web application firewalls, web service platforms for mobile apps/advertising/distributed storage/data analytics, to full-fledged dynamic web applications and web sites. The hardware used to run OpenResty® also ranges from very big metals to embedded devices with very limited... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf]

  It's maybe deprecated by the official Nginx support, but there are other projects and organizations that are offering Lua scripting with Nginx with all kinds of extensions and libraries. See OpenResty website[0] and Github repo[1]. [0] - https://openresty.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: The C10M Problem

  Have you seen https://openresty.org/en/ before? To share a quote directly taken from their website: > 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... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Lockbox: forward proxy for making third party API calls

  Nginx is quite extendable, there are tons of nginx plugins to help you add more customizations. There is OpenResty, a version of nginx [0]. It allows you to script all sorts of stuff with Lua inside nginx itself. Tools like lockbox are not necessary, nginx, caddy, etc or heck even a normal 70 line python3 fastapi based script works just fine and should be more extendable than lockbox. [0](https://openresty.org/en/). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about

  APISIX is an API Gateway. It builds upon OpenResty, a Lua layer built on top of the famous nginx reverse-proxy. APISIX adds abstractions to the mix, e.g., Route, Service, Upstream, and offers a plugin-based architecture. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Apache APISIX plugin priority, a leaky abstraction?

  Apache APISIX is an API Gateway, which builds upon the OpenResty reverse-proxy to offer a plugin-based architecture. The main benefit of such an architecture is that it brings structure to the configuration of routes. It's a help at scale, when managing hundreds or thousands of routes. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Creating Chess Board SVGs, PNGs, and GIFs

  There are no dependencies so this algorithm can run client-side or server-side, and the image takes less than a millisecond to generate while compressing down to about 2 KB. For the production server, I ended up using OpenResty (an extension of Nginx) with Lua but the process is the same. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Lua: The Little Language That Could

  Mentioning Openresty[1] (nginx + Lua + LuaJIT) is a must. I have been running production code with Openresty for the last 15 years. Smooth sail. [1] https://openresty.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server

  I guess if you're starting something from scratch today you'd be better off using https://openresty.org/en/ (based on nginx and Lua) than TCL on this? - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Apache APISIX loves Rust! (and me too)

  OpenResty, a platform that allows scripting NGINX with the Lua programming language via LuaJIT. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago

• Writing your own service discovery client for Apache APISIX

  We want the client to read the YAML file regularly. For this, we can leverage the power of the Lua Nginx module. It's part of OpenResty, which Apache APISIX is built upon. The module offers additional APIs, and two of them are particularly useful:. - Source: dev.to / about 4 years ago

• Unified account system for Nextcloud and Jellyfin on Nginx?

  I got info just yesterday about this and KeyCloak was suggested. https://www.keycloak.org/ - it should work with nginx. And/or with https://openresty.org/en/ instead of nginx - openresty is, as far as I understood, similiar to nginx plus, so more features and still free. Source: about 4 years ago

• Non-Russian compression software - does it exist?

  The main open-source fork is the fetchingly-named OpenResty. Source: about 4 years ago

• Secure microservices with Kong and Ory

  Kong gateway can be an excellent solution for an Ingress load balancer and API gateway if you do not want vendor lock-in of any Cloud API Gateways in your application. Kong uses OpenResty and Lua. OpenResty extends Nginx with Lua scripting to use Nginx's event model for non-blocking I/O with HTTP Clients and remote backends like PostgreSQL, Memcached, and Redis. OpenResty Is not an Nginx fork, and Kong is not an... - Source: dev.to / over 4 years ago

• Show HN: Nginx Common Useful Configuration

  > Also, have you ever tried compiling ngx yourself (they don't include Lua modules support There's always OpenResty[1] which is a kind of "batteries included" version of nginx - I use it in preference to nginx these days because I do a lot of experiments with, e.g., the Lua, Redis, Postgres support OR has. [1] https://openresty.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• What is Apache APISIX?

  APISIX is supported by two significant architectures, X86 and ARM64. It also supports OpenResty and Tengine run environments & runs on bare metal to various servers in public clouds. - Source: dev.to / over 4 years ago

• A toolkit for developing high-performance HTTP reverse proxy applications open-sourced by Microsoft

  It allows for Lua plugins out of the box for years now. Check https://openresty.org/en/ out. Source: over 4 years ago

• Some question about Lua

  I'd like to also mention that it can be embedded into nginx configuration, and that can be used to to put a little bit of adhoc code into your nginx webserver. You can take a look at openresty as well. Source: over 4 years ago

• Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS

  Hammerspoon is fantastic. And Lua is a such a fun little language to program in. And with LuaJIT [0] you can run it on your nginx webserver [1] at basically the speed of C code. It's really a marvel of engineering. [0] https://luajit.org/ [1] https://openresty.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• Apache Traffic Server

  Although haproxy and nginx cover (for me) almost all use-cases I had to deal with (with OpenResty [1] as a backup), I see one place where ATS could shine: plugins. From examples [2], C API looks sane and well documented, and this is very important if you want to add some custom stuff inside your proxy server without losing your hair. And no, lua isn't the solution here ;) Those who had to deal with nginx plugins,... - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day

  OpenResty [1] is a good mix of these concepts. It serves requests through nginx (which is at its core just a lightweight event loop) and then serves pages through LuaJIT. If you need more speed you could always write an nginx module in C (or in some other language viz the C ABI). [1]: https://openresty.org/en/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago