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The examples are there to show you what you can do from a flexible piece of software like Nginx. It could have nothing to do with the web tier.

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Still, it would be interesting with connections to real-life applications. I was hoping to figure out a few practical ways of using more of my nginx spare cycles. I'm sure there's a ton of cool stuff one could actually use this for, but I'm none the wiser after the presentation.

Well, we're building our business (some data products in Taobao.com) atop this kind of nginx-based technology ;)

We'll also make extensive use of AJAX, Flash, and Jemplate in this context.

To be clearer, this is not a project just for fun, but rather, a serious company project that is allowed to be opensourced.

I must add that, the stuffs shown in these slides are just our "level 1 scripting". There will be level 2 and level 3, so as to support more sophisticated business logic in our data platform.

Level 2 will be ngx_lua scripting which provides Erlang-style transparent non-blocking I/O support and access to the whole nginx infrastructure and all the level 1 scripting goodies.

Level 3 will be...well...Perl 6, JavaScript, and PHP scripting atop the ngx_lua VM (by the corresponding X -> Lua compiler). grin We'll eventually get there.

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