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> unless you explicitly use something optional like Lua

I've actually at one point considered writing some light web apps as nginx modules, in Lua. In the end though, it's usually enough to pluck the lowest hanging fruit, which (as a rule is) caching... Cache as much as possible (including when you have a python web app behind nginx).



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