Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Before you get any ideas about the topic of this post, it's not a rant about OpenResty at all - it's actually a great piece of software and in my opinion a fantastic integration between a capable webserver (Nginx) and a light-weight programming language (Lua). The combination makes it ideal for high-performance delivery of traffic with some light business logic thrown in as well. We use it at my…