OpenResty^® is a full-fledged web platform that integrates our
enhanced version of the
Nginx core, our enhanced version of LuaJIT, many carefully written Lua
libraries, lots of high quality 3rd-party Nginx modules, and
most of their external dependencies. It is designed to help developers easily
build scalable web applications, web services, and dynamic web gateways.

By taking advantage of various well-designed Nginx modules (most
of which are developed by the OpenResty team themselves), OpenResty^® effectively
turns the nginx server into a powerful web app server, in which the web developers
can use the Lua programming language to script various existing nginx C modules
and Lua modules and construct extremely high-performance web applications that
are capable to handle 10K ~ 1000K+ connections in a single box.

OpenResty^® aims to run your server-side web app completely in the N