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Top 12 Lua Nginx Projects
- Project mention: Show HN: ArchGW – an intelligent edge and service proxy for agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-12
Nice project but there are several dozens of AI gateways now.. all kind doing the same thing. Kong AI gateway [1] was maybe the first to attack the LLM traffic governance and is indeed far ahead in both features and adoption. Trying to understand the value add and differentiator here, since is a problem kinda solved already.
[https://github.com/Kong/kong]
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API Gateway. APISIX API Gateway provides rich traffic management features and can serve as an AI Gateway through its flexible plugin system.
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cdn-up-and-running
CDN Up and Running - Building a CDN from Scratch to Learn about CDN, Nginx, Lua, Prometheus, Grafana, Load balancing, and Containers.
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lua-resty-auto-ssl
On the fly (and free) SSL registration and renewal inside OpenResty/nginx with Let's Encrypt.
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uusec-waf
Industry-leading free, high-performance, AI and semantic technology Web Application Firewall and API Security Gateway (WAAP) - UUSEC WAF.
UUSEC WAF - An high-performance, AI and semantic technology Web Application Firewall and API Security Gateway (WAAP).
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lua-resty-openidc
OpenID Connect Relying Party and OAuth 2.0 Resource Server implementation in Lua for NGINX / OpenResty
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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htaccess-for-nginx
.htaccess for nginx enables the nginx high performance webserver to deal with .htaccess files.
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nginx-lua-redis-rate-measuring
A lua library to provide distributed rate measurement using nginx + redis, you can use it to do a throttling system within many nodes.
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lua-casbin
An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in Lua (Kong, APISIX, OpenResty)
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- Project mention: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2025) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-03
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (EU-based, GMT+1) | Part-Time
Perl Backend developer, SQL expert, Monitoring Architect, Technical lead
Language: English, German
Areas of expertise:
* Fulltext/geospatial search systems with SOLR/ElasticSearch. Building REST API on top of SOLR data - see https://github.com/samsk/lua-resty-solr
* RESO MLS synchronization / data import / IDX API - see https://mlsync.io
* Cloud/On-premise asset inventory (CI creation) for ITSM systems (with https://github.com/cloudinventario/cloudinventario)
* ETL pipelines (data collection, transformation, enrichment, BI reporting...), DWH Building
* SQL data model and query optimization
* API Gateways (Kong, Apisix, OpenResty...)
* Automation with Ansible / Terraform
* Skills: Perl, C, Bash, Python, Lua, Go, Java, NodeJS, PHP...
Github: https://github.com/samsk/
Email: ja.hn4[at]mailgw.com
NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Nginx projects in Lua? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kong | 42,421 |
| 2 | apisix | 15,992 |
| 3 | cdn-up-and-running | 3,560 |
| 4 | lua-resty-auto-ssl | 1,971 |
| 5 | nginx-lua-prometheus | 1,543 |
| 6 | uusec-waf | 1,533 |
| 7 | lua-resty-openidc | 1,050 |
| 8 | htaccess-for-nginx | 162 |
| 9 | nginx-lua-redis-rate-measuring | 153 |
| 10 | lua-casbin | 65 |
| 11 | lua-resty-inspect | 18 |
| 12 | lua-resty-solr | 0 |
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