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It's interesting almost no web server provides an easy way to deal with multi-tenant multi-domain architectures in a good way that includes automatic SSL. Caddy is the closest, but still not near enough. There is this small segment of the market that we operate in that requires thousands of TLS connected domains to be hosted behind a dynamic backend. It's services like Tumblr, Wordpress.com, or any other hosting serv…
One of my friends brought me up this post in the morning. The post is awesome and inspirational (caused a discussion in our chant group), though I can't agree with some trivial points. > Nginx performance without stats collections is on part with Envoy, but our Lua stats collection slowed Nginx on the high-RPS test by a factor of 3. This was expected given our reliance on lua_shared_dict, which is synchronized across…
it's a pity that community never evolved with nginx growth and success
One of my friends brought me up this post in the morning. The post is awesome and inspirational (caused a discussion in our chant group), though I can't agree with some trivial points. > Nginx performance without stats collections is on part with Envoy, but our Lua stats collection slowed Nginx on the high-RPS test by a factor of 3. This was expected given our reliance on lua_shared_dict, which is synchronized across…
> The `a factor of 3` is quite large to me. Maybe you put all your stats in lua_shared_dict? You don't need to synchronize the stats every time. Since the collection regularly happens in per-minute frequency, you can put the stats as Lua table, and synchronize them once per 5/10 seconds. Any pointers on how to achieve this for someone just starting out with lua and openresty? I have the exact same thing (lua_shared_d…