OpenResty is a ‘superset’ of NGINX that’s bundled with LuaJIT and numerous 3rd-party NGINX modules. Tumblr has recently moved over to it.

Here’s how to tune an out-of-the-box instance of NGINX to get more out of an already high-performance web server with a few common tuning parameters.

The differences between REST and RPC for APIs, along with some use cases for each approach.

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Nell Shamrell-Harrington takes us on a journey through each stage of the DevOps movement and why things played out the way they did.

Secure and manage your APIs and Microservices with plugins for auth, logging, rate-limiting, etc. Built on NGINX and written in Lua.

Dan Luu, a senior engineer at Microsoft (and formerly Google), shares a lot of great insights into how to think about performance. Bread and butter stuff from a true expert.

TLS 1.3 is a big speed boost for encrypted Web connections. Nick Sullivan looks at how and why.

A developer quickly shares his approach to ‘going serverless’ and building a CRUD API with AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB.