references.rst

kawipiko -- blazingly fast static HTTP server

References

[CDB]

CDB (@Wikipedia); cdb (project website, reference implementation by DJB); cdb (project @GitHub, pure Go implementation, used by kawipiko with patches;) Constant Database Internals (article); Benchmarking LevelDB vs. RocksDB vs. HyperLevelDB vs. LMDB Performance for InfluxDB (article); Badger vs LMDB vs BoltDB: Benchmarking key-value databases in Go (article); Benchmarking BDB, CDB and Tokyo Cabinet on large datasets (article); TinyCDB (fork project); tinydns (DNS server using CDB); qmail (SMTP server using CDB);

[Go]	Go (@Wikipedia); Go (project website);

[fasthttp]

fasthttp (project @GitHub); high performance HTTP server implementation; (alternative to Go's net/http implementation;) supports HTTP/1 (with or without TLS); used by kawipiko;

[quic-go]

quic-go (project @GitHub); supports HTTP/3 (over QUIC); used by kawipiko;

[Zopfli]

Zopfli (@Wikipedia); Zopfli (project @GitHub, reference implementation by Google); Zopfli (project @GitHub, pure Go implementation, used by kawipiko);

[Brotli]

Brotli (@Wikipedia); Brotli (project @GitHub, reference implementation by Google); Brotli (project @GitHub, pure Go implementation, used by kawipiko); Results of experimenting with Brotli for dynamic web content (article);

[Blake3]

Blake3 (@Wikipedia); Blake3 (project @GitHub, reference implementation); Blake3 (project @GitHub, pure Go implementation, used by kawipiko);

[Bolt]

bolt (project @GitHub, original pure Go implementation); bbolt (project @GitHub, forked pure Go implementation, used by kawipiko);

[dpbench]

dpbench (project @GitHub); describes a standard methodology for testing HTTP proxies; (it can also be applied to kawipiko;) HAProxy Forwards Over 2 Million HTTP Requests per Second (article);

[wrk]

wrk (project @GitHub); modern HTTP benchmarking tool; multi threaded, implemented in C, with event loop and Lua support; supports HTTP/1 (with and without TLS);

[h2load]

part of the nghttp2 project; nghttp2 (project @GitHub); modern HTTP benchmarking tool; multi threaded, implemented in C, with event loop; supports HTTP/1 (with TLS), HTTP/3, and HTTP/3 (over QUIC);

[Netlify]

Netlify (cloud provider);

[HAProxy]

HAProxy (@Wikipedia); HAProxy (project website); reliable high performance TCP/HTTP load-balancer; multi threaded, implemented in C, with event loop and Lua support;

[NGinx]

NGinx (@Wikipedia); NGinx (project website); reliable high performance HTTP server; multi threaded, implemented in C, with event loop;

[darkhttpd]

darkhttpd (project website); simple static HTTP server; single threaded, implemented in C, with event loop and sendfile support;

[mmap]

Memory mapping (@Wikipedia); mmap(2) (Linux man page);