Nginx Tutorial: Developing Modules

http://www.airpair.com/nginx/extending-nginx-tutorial

by aerosmile • 12 years ago

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yellow2• 12 years ago

In a cursory glance, this appears to be logic (token, redis, etc) that can be handled by Nginx+Lua. Is there any reason to do it this way vs the other?

abedra2• 12 years ago

The intent was to demonstrate how to write a module in C. This can be solved with Lua as well.

yellow2• 12 years ago

I was hoping for a performance related answer, but you are right. I might walk through this and see if one way is faster than the other. Thanks!

justincormack• 12 years ago

Using Lua is much easier. Performance is unlikely to be a bottleneck. Developing a module is a real pain and a last resort.

abedra2• 12 years ago

Using Lua is certainly easier. The C version will almost always be faster, and yes, performance in this scenario probably wouldn't be an issue between the two. The other reason for writing a module in C though is complete control over the execution and an easier time troubleshooting problems. Adding another language layer can present issues when things explode.

berkay• 12 years ago

thanks for this. It came in just at the right time as I was looking into this.

al_the_x• 12 years ago

I would also like to see this approach in Lua by comparison. I find the performance loss negligible compared to the ease of writing / debugging Lua.

mceoin• 12 years ago

Thanks for the video.

techdoc• 12 years ago

awesome video!

joewalnes• 12 years ago

I love how this tutorial starts by writing an automated integration test. More tutorials should do this. A fine job. Have a cookie.

JarrettGoetz• 12 years ago

This looks awesome!

hmhecht• 12 years ago

Excellent tutorial, thank you for posting. All tutorials should be this complete.

Nginx Tutorial: Developing Modules

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