🆚 Cowboy vs. OpenResty
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 OpenResty is much more popular than Cowboy.
- 🌍 OpenResty is more popular in all countries.
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About
Cowboy is a small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports Websocket, HTTP/2, and REST.
OpenResty is an Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.
It embeds Lua, a lightweight scripting language, into Nginx's event-driven architecture, enabling high-performance dynamic request handling, asynchronous I/O, API and microservice development, traffic control, caching, authentication, and logging.
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- 🔥 11st most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Samoa in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Slovakia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Seychelles in the Web Servers category.
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