Kong is a cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway, API Middleware or in some cases Service Mesh). Backed by the battle-tested NGINX with a focus on high performance, Kong was made available as an open-source platform in 2015. Under active development, Kong is used in production at thousands of organizations from startups, Global 5000 and Government organizations.
 
If you are building for web, mobile or IoT (Internet of Things) you will likely end up needing common functionality to run your actual software. Kong can help by acting as a gateway (or a sidecar) for microservices requests while providing load balancing, logging, authentication, rate-limiting and more through plugins.
 
Its features include: 
<ul>
<li>Cloud-Native: Platform agnostic, Kong can run from bare metal to
Kubernetes.</li>
<li>Dynamic Load Balancing: Load balance traffic across multiple backend
services.</li>
<li>Service Discovery: Resolve SRV records in third-party DNS resolvers like
Consul.</li>
<li>Serverless: Invoke and secure AWS Lambda or OpenWhisk fuctions directly
from Kong.</li>
<li>WebSockets: Communicate to your upstream services via WebSockets.</li>
<li>OAuth2.0: Easily add OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs.</li>
<li>Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over HTTP, TCP, UDP,
or to disk.</li>
<li>Security: ACL, Bot detection, whitelist/blacklist IPs, etc...</li>
<li>Syslog: Logging to System log.</li>
<li>SSL: Setup a Specific SSL Certificate for an underlying service or API.</li>
<li>Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server
metrics.</li>
<li>Authentications: HMAC, JWT, Basic, and more.</li>
<li>Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on many variables.</li>
<li>Transformations: Add, remove, or manipulate HTTP requests and responses.</li>
<li>Caching: Cache and serve responses at the proxy layer.</li>
<li>CLI: Control your Kong cluster from the command line.</li>
<li>REST API: Kong can be operated with its RESTful API for maximum
flexibility.</li>
<li>Geo-Replicated: Configs are always up-to-date across different regions.</li>
<li>Failure Detection &amp; Recovery: Kong is unaffected if one of your Cassandra
nodes goes down.</li>
<li>Clustering: All Kong nodes auto-join the cluster keeping their config
updated across nodes.</li>
<li>Scalability: Distributed by nature, Kong scales horizontally by simply
adding nodes.</li>
<li>Performance: Kong handles load with ease by scaling and using NGINX at
the core.</li>
<li>Plugins: Extendable architecture for adding functionality to Kong and
APIs.</li>
</ul>

Kong is a cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway, API Middleware or in some cases Service Mesh). Backed by the battle-tested NGINX with a focus on high performance, Kong was made available as an open-source platform in 2015. Under active development, Kong is used in production at thousands of organizations from startups, Global 5000 and Government organizations.

Kong - The Microservice API Gateway 

Tarantool is an in-memory database and application server. It is 100% compatible drop-in replacement for Lua 5.1, based on LuaJIT 2.1. It has full support for Lua modules and a rich set of own modules, including cooperative multitasking, non-blocking I/O, access to external databases, etc.
 
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Tarantool is an in-memory database and application server. It is 100% compatible drop-in replacement for Lua 5.1, based on LuaJIT 2.1. It has full support for Lua modules and a rich set of own modules, including cooperative multitasking, non-blocking I/O, access to external databases, etc.

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Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway. APISIX provides rich traffic management features such as load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability, and more. You can use Apache APISIX to handle traditional north-south traffic, as well as east-west traffic between services. It can also be used as a k8s ingress controller.
 
You can use Apache APISIX as a traffic entrance to process all business data, including dynamic routing, dynamic upstream, dynamic certificates, A/B testing, canary release, blue-green deployment, limit rate, defense against malicious attacks, metrics, monitoring alarms, service observability, service governance, etc.

Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway. APISIX provides rich traffic management features such as load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability, and more. You can use Apache APISIX to handle traditional north-south traffic, as well as east-west traffic between services. It can also be used as a k8s ingress controller.

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lite is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either. Additional functionality can be added through plugins which are available from the plugins repository; additional color themes can be found in the colors repository. The editor can be customized by making changes to the user module.

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Prosody is a modern XMPP communication server. It aims to be easy to set up and configure, and efficient with system resources. Additionally, for developers it aims to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop added functionality, or prototype new protocols.

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MojoSetup is a standalone installer for Linux, designed to help third-party developers that need to ship software outside of traditional package management infrastructure. MojoSetup is a heavy revamping of loki_setup and it started from scratch. Most of MojoSetup was designed explicitly to solve specific shortcomings in loki_setup.
 
MojoSetup uses Lua, a lightweight scripting language embedded in the installer, for most of the work: the localization tables are a Lua script, the config file is a Lua script, and a good portion of the actual installer code is Lua script.

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MojoSetup -  A standalone installer for Linux software. 

Orbit is an MVC web framework for Lua. The design is inspired by lightweight Ruby frameworks such as Camping. It completely abandons the CGILua model of "scripts" in favor of applications, where each Orbit application can fit in a single file, but you can split it into multiple files if you want.All Orbit applications follow the WSAPI protocol, so they currently work with Xavante, CGI and Fastcgi. It includes a launcher that makes it easy to launch a Xavante instance for development.

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Phorklift is an HTTP server and proxy daemon, with clear, powerful and dynamic configuration. It is similar to Nginx, provides high performance and low memory usage. It supports HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2, Static file service, proxy, ACL, gzip, etc. Lua is used configuration, which makes simple and powerful.



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