OpenResty

Specific best practices and architectural patterns when working with OpenResty.

Language / Topic

Lua

Rules

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- Execute Lua logic extremely efficiently binding functions directly within `content_by_lua_block` Nginx configuration directives.

- Fetch database data asynchronously running `lua-resty-mysql` or `lua-resty-redis` modules explicitly avoiding blocking operations.

- Cache frequent responses dynamically utilizing `lua_shared_dict` configuring fast local memory sharing across Nginx workers.

- Parse incoming JSON payloads natively linking `cjson.decode` cleanly returning standard Lua table structures.