[rdrock]

We used to do nginx + gunicorn for our rest services, it was not responding well beyond a point (for a given ec2 instance). We replaced that with nginx + lua (openresty module), we saw almost 10x increase in response times. Would it make sense for us to invest in something like this and hope to see a significant performance gain? Lowering response times is not a big deal but being able to get those same response times on a lower priced instance would definitely help. We have no real C++ skills in the team but we could learn or hire.