Systems & Infrastructure

Extending NGINX with Lua and OpenResty

You will learn to extend NGINX's capabilities by embedding Lua scripts directly into your configuration. Using OpenResty, you'll dynamically manipulate requests and responses, build custom API logic, and implement advanced features like shared memory caching and background tasks.

Lua

NGINX

OpenResty

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4 lessons

19 practices

2 hours

Programming and Scripting

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Getting Started with Lua

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Launch Your First Lua Endpoint

Capturing Request Information

Building Your First Access Guard

Tracking Request Performance

Building a Complete Protected Endpoint

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Francisco Aguilar Meléndez

Data Scientist

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I love that it's personalized. When I'm stuck, I don't have to hope my Google searches come out successful. The AI mentor Cosmo knows exactly what I need.

Faith Yim

Software Engineer

+14

It's an amazing product and exceeded my expectations, helping me prepare for my job interviews. Hands-on learning requires you to actually know what you are doing.

Alex Bush

Full Stack Engineer

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Abbey Helterbran

Tech consultant

I tried Leetcode but it was too disorganized. CodeSignal covers all the topics I'm interested in and is way more structured.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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Data Scientist

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Extending NGINX with Lua and OpenResty

Course details

Unit 15 practices38 min

Unit 25 practices38 min

Unit 35 practices38 min

Unit 44 practices32 min

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