wayfinder
Seastar
wayfinder | Seastar | |
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2 | 25 | |
7 | 8,046 | |
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3.6 | 9.7 | |
over 2 years ago | 5 days ago | |
Go | C++ | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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wayfinder
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Unikraft is a fast, secure and open-source Unikernel Development Kit
1. We build unikernels using the 'kraft container' which is Docker/OCI image[0][1] which has the necessary build tools to build Unikraft unikernels. We plug this into Concourse which builds thousands of combinations of Unikernels[2] as part of our code review process[3]. In addition to this, we have on-going research and tooling to help automatically discover permutations of Unikernel builds[4].
2. Really great question, but mostly you can expect the same functionality of an application when it runs as a unikernel because the application "thinks" it's still running in a traditional OS environment -- as it should be. Check out this documentation[5] (after step 7) about porting, it has snippets about where the boundary sometimes breaks.
3. Well, general-purposes are not suited for deployment environments. Installing Gentoo (or Ubuntu, Debian, for that matter) is a waste of resources if you only SSH in once to install your desired application.
[0]: https://unikraft.org/docs/usage/install/#docker
[1]: https://github.com/unikraft/kraft/tree/staging/package/docke...
[2]: https://builds.unikraft.io
[3]: https://unikraft.org/docs/contributing/review-process/#stage...
[4]: https://github.com/lancs-net/wayfinder
[5]: https://unikraft.org/docs/develop/porting/#providing-build-f...
- Wayfinder: OS Configuration Micro-Benchmarking Framework
Seastar
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I want to share my latest hobby project, dbeel: A distributed thread-per-core nosql db written in rust
I used glommio as the async executor (instead of something like tokio), and it is wonderful. For people wondering whether it's "good enough" or to use C++ and seastar (as I have thought about a lot before starting this project), take the leap of faith, it's fast - both in terms of run time and to code.
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How much reason is there to be multi-threaded in the k8s environment
b) It's proven now e.g Seastar, Glommio that the fastest way to run a multi-threaded application is to have one instance with one thread pinned per CPU core. Then to have fibers/lightweight threads on top handling all of the asynchronous code. Your approach of lots of instances is the slowest so there will be a ton of unnecessary thread context-switching.
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Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?
The most common example is DPDK [1]. It's a framework for building bespoke networking stacks that are usable from userspace, without involving the kernel.
You'll find DPDK mentioned a lot in the networking/HPC/data center literature. An example of a backend framework that uses DPDK is the seastar framework [2]. Also, I recently stumbled upon a paper for efficient RPC networks in data centers [3].
If you want to learn more, the p99 conference by ScyllaDB has tons of speakers talking about some interesting challenges.
[1] https://www.dpdk.org/.
[2] https://github.com/scylladb/seastar
[3] https://github.com/erpc-io/eRPC
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Why does Actix-web's handler not require Send?
I assume Tokio itself, see e.g monoio or glommio, but also Seastar for C++.
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What is DPDK library in C and how to learn it?
https://core.dpdk.org/supported/ lists supported nics. You're best just reading material from the dpdk website for figuring out roughly what it is. It is used for a lot of different goals. For most web C++ stuff it's mainly used because you can avoid round trips of data passing through the kernel and can reference network data without tons of copying. For an example check out the SeaStar framework, https://seastar.io/, which is under the hood of ScyllaDB.
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How Numberly Replaced Kafka with a Rust-Based ScyllaDB Shard-Aware Application
As this is a Kafka sub, this may be a good opportunity to mention that Redpanda is based on the same framework (seastar) as Scylla. The idea of sharding work to CPU cores turns out to apply very well to the Kafka data model, too!
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What are some C++ projects with high quality code that I can read through?
Seastar which is a thread per core runtime written by the Scylla devs thats used in both Redpanda and Scylla as the underlying runtime. https://github.com/scylladb/seastar
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Abstraction Is Expensive
ScyllaDB is, ironically, maybe one of the worst examples the author could have come up with for "abstraction" in the article.
If folks aren't familiar with their work/internal tech, go check out some of their repos like Seastar. They have some of the most talented systems programmers on the planet writing thin veneers over kernel and hardware API's to squeeze every ounce out of performance.
https://github.com/scylladb/seastar
I know it's beside the point, but I just had to share because I thought that was funny
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Modern JVM Multithreading • Paweł Jurczenko • Devoxx Poland 2021
I’ve seen frameworks for c++ (https://seastar.io/) and rust (https://github.com/actix/actix) which support what you’re describing out of the box.
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Who is using C++ for web development?
If you're interested in scaling and asynchronous programming in c++ I highly recommend you investigate the SeaStar application framework. You wouldn't build a web service with SeaStar, rather you would build the infrastructure that you would use to build the web service on top of. https://github.com/scylladb/seastar
What are some alternatives?
app-click - Click Modular Router on Unikraft
Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.
unikraft - A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.
glommio - Glommio is a thread-per-core crate that makes writing highly parallel asynchronous applications in a thread-per-core architecture easier for rustaceans.
click - The Click modular router: fast modular packet processing and analysis
Boost.Asio - Asio C++ Library
pykraft - Python library for configuring and building unikernels
Boost - Super-project for modularized Boost
docs - The front page and documentation for the Unikraft Open-Source Project.
ffead-cpp - Framework for Enterprise Application Development in c++, HTTP1/HTTP2/HTTP3 compliant, Supports multiple server backends
unikraft - FlexOS is a Unikraft-based OS allowing users to easily specialize the safety and isolation strategy at compilation time.
Qt - Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)