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Augusto Marietti@sinzone · CEO, Mashape
Hi everyone! Happy to answer questions for the PH community
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Kevin Li@liveink · #NewStuff
@sinzone great job!
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Loris Maz@lorismaz · Founder, SimpleVisa
@sinzone Really cool! Awesome contribution, thanks! Will there be a marketplace for Plugins? (I see there is some there already)
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Luis Solano@luisobo · Lead Platform Engineer @ Pixable
@sinzone Thanks for Kong. I have a question: Why lua?
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Augusto Marietti@sinzone · CEO, Mashape
@lorismaz yes. there will be. commercial plugins.
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Augusto Marietti@sinzone · CEO, Mashape
@liveink thanks buddy! hug wifey too.
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Augusto Marietti@sinzone · CEO, Mashape
@luisobo Thx to you! Good question. We decided to use Lua for two main reasons: 1) Nginx has an exceptional support for Lua through its Lua extension, the embedded LuaJIT 2.x is very fast and performant adding just a little overhead when processing requests, and it’s battle tested at CloudFlare and Netflix. Because of its amazing performance Lua and LuaJIT a… See more
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