将单独的REST路由从PHP迁移到Node.js / Golang /等等

Question

At this moment my REST API works on PHP, and is running behind Apache2/Nginx (on Apache2 actually, migration to Nginx is in progress), but after reading about Golang and Node.js performance for rest, i am thinking about migrating my REST from PHP to one of this variants, but where i stuck is how to migrate only some of routes, not whole REST at one.

For example now i have two routes

/users and /articles

apache is listening for 80 port, and then with PHP help return response for them, but what if i want to migrate /articles to Node.js? How my webserver will know what for /articles he need to call Node.js if Node.js will be on different port, but for /users still use PHP?

Answer 1

Found pretty good solution from my colleagues, just handle request with nginx and redirect to another server if request uri contains something, like this:

server {
    listen 127.0.0.1:80;
    server_name localhost.dev;
    location ~* ^/[a-zA-Z0-9]+_[a-zA-Z0-9]+_(?<image_id>[0-9]+).* {
        include             proxy_headers.conf;
        proxy_set_header    X-Secure     False;
        add_header          X-Image-Id   $image_id;
        access_log          off;
        proxy_pass http://localhost-image-cache;
        proxy_next_upstream off;
    }
}

upstream localhost-image-cache {
hash $server_name$image_id consistent;
    server 127.0.0.1:81 max_fails=0;
    keepalive 16;
}