Python Microservices Development

OpenResty - Lua and nginx

OpenResty (http://openresty.org/en/) is an nginx distribution that embeds a Lua (http://www.lua.org/) interpreter that can be used to script the web server.

Lua is an excellent, dynamically-typed programming language, which has a ;lightweight interpreter, yet, very fast. The language offers a complete set of features and has built-in async features. You can write coroutines directly in vanilla Lua.

For a Python developer, Lua feels quite Pythonic, and you can start to build scripts with it in a matter of hours once you know the basic syntax. It has functions, classes, and a standard library that will make you feel at home.

If you install Lua (refer to http://www.lua.org/start.html), you can play with the language ...