Kawipiko – fast static HTTP server in Go

• fasthttp

  36 21,049 8.6 Go

  Fast HTTP package for Go. Tuned for high performance. Zero memory allocations in hot paths. Up to 10x faster than net/http

[Kawipiko's author here] NGinx is great at what it does, however in order to get good performance out of it one must also be a master of its configuration knobs, and knowing all of their implications. For example while benchmarking NGinx I've observed quite different performance characteristics for simple patterns such as asking for `/some-folder/` that fallbacks to `/some-folder/index.html` vs explicitly asking for `/some-folder/index.html`.

On the other hand with Kawipiko there aren't many configuration knobs; it is already tuned for a single particular use-case: serving static content for websites (with small resources).

Also, a particular use-case where Kawipiko can shine over NGinx, is for a website with lots of small resources (as with my Leaflet tiles example). NGinx can't decide where those resources are placed on disk, thus the OS file-system caching and read-ahead can't help too much here. Meanwhile with Kawipiko, where everything is bundled together, it receives a lot of help from the OS in this regard.

As with regard to the "battle-tested and versatile", Kawipiko uses <https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp> as its HTTP engine, which itself is used in quite a lot of Go-based products, thus one could state that it's "battle-tested enough". :)

With regard the "even for a doc server embedded in hardware", why don't you think Kawipiko is a good fit in that case? (In fact this was one of its main use-cases.)

• kawipiko

  6 393 3.5 Go

  kawipiko -- blazingly fast static HTTP server -- focused on low latency and high concurrency, by leveraging Go, `fasthttp` and the CDB embedded database

  

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