Evolution of High-Performance Web Servers: From C10k to io_uring, kTLS and Rust
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Baker's choice. Dense with flavour, light on filler.
Summary
This article discusses the evolution of high-performance web servers, focusing on the historical context of the C10k problem and the progression from process-based to thread-based architectures. It then introduces modern solutions using io_uring, kTLS, and Rust programming to create zero syscall HTTPS servers, representing the latest advancements in server optimization and performance.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledAround the turn of the century we started to get a bigger need for high capacity web servers
At the time, the kinds of things done to reduce work done per request was pre-forking the web server
Things did get better. People learned how to create threads, making things more light weight
Then they switched to using poll()/select(), in order to not just sp
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