Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day
by Karrot_Kream on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:26PM
(#28451078)
OpenResty [1] is a good mix of these concepts. It serves requests through nginx (which is at its core just a lightweight event loop) and then serves pages through LuaJIT. If you need more speed you could always write an nginx module in C (or in some other language viz the C ABI).
[1]: https://openresty.org/en/