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Haywire is an asynchronous HTTP server framework written in C that's built using the event loop based libuv platform layer that node.js is built on top of.
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Haywire is an asynchronous HTTP server framework written in C that's built using the event loop based libuv platform layer that node.js is built on top of.

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Haywire
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Haywire is an asynchronous HTTP server framework written in C. The goal of Haywire is to learn how to create a server with a minimal feature set that can handle a high rate of requests and connections with as low of latency and resource usage as possible.

Haywire uses the event loop based [libuv](https://github.com/joyent/libuv) platform layer that node.js is built on top of (also written in C). libuv abstracts IOCP on Windows and epoll/kqueue/event ports/etc. on Unix systems to provide efficient asynchronous I/O on all supported platforms.

Haywire isn't very useful yet but I wanted to open source it from the very beginning. I started experimenting with a HTTP server for Dazzle queries and I decided I would split it into its own project.

## Features
- Cross platform (Windows, Linux, OSX)
- HTTP keep-alive
- HTTP pipelining
- Non-blocking I/O
- SO_REUSEPORT multi-process and multi-threaded load balancing across CPU cores.

## Plans or Ideas
- HTTP handler routing
- SPDY support
- Export an API that is easily consumable by other languages like on the JVM (Java, etc) and the CLR (C#, etc)

## Contributions
Feel free to join in if you feel like helping progress Haywire. I'm open to new ideas and would love to work with some people instead of by myself!

## Dependencies
```
apt-get install git gcc make cmake automake autoconf libssl-dev libtool
```

## Compiling on Linux
./make.sh

## Compiling on Mac OSX
```
brew install automake
brew install libtool
brew install openssl
./make.sh
```

## Compiling on Windows
These instructions are old but may still work. We need to make Windows support in `make.sh`.

Open the Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio

build.bat

## Benchmarks

Bare metal Rackspace instance
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz 20 physical cores

#### Throughput
```
../bin/wrk/wrk --script ./pipelined_get.lua --latency -d 5m -t 40 -c 760 http://server:8000 -- 32

Running 5m test @ http://server:8000
40 threads and 760 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 2.04ms 5.38ms 389.00ms 92.75%
Req/Sec 233.38k 48.72k 458.99k 86.19%
Latency Distribution
50% 1.26ms
75% 1.96ms
90% 4.09ms
99% 0.00us
2781077938 requests in 5.00m, 409.23GB read
Requests/sec: 9,267,161.41
Transfer/sec: 1.36GB
```

#### Latency distribution with coordinated omission at 3.5 million requests/second
```
../bin/wrk2/wrk --script ./pipelined_get.lua --latency -d 10s -t 80 -c 512 -R 3500000 http://server:8000 -- 32

Running 10s test @ http://server:8000
80 threads and 512 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 1.82ms 3.00ms 64.86ms 94.17%
Req/Sec -nan -nan 0.00 0.00%
Latency Distribution (HdrHistogram - Recorded Latency)
50.000% 1.18ms
75.000% 1.62ms
90.000% 2.34ms
99.000% 16.75ms
99.900% 33.12ms
99.990% 44.70ms
99.999% 52.99ms
100.000% 64.89ms

----system---- ----total-cpu-usage---- ------memory-usage----- --io/total- -dsk/total- -net/total- ---system-- -pkt/total- ----tcp-sockets----
time |usr sys idl wai hiq siq| used buff cach free| read writ| read writ| recv send| int csw |#recv #send|lis act syn tim clo
03-12 18:58:10| 0 0 99 0 0 0| 712M 95.3M 1203M 124G|0.05 0.22 | 684B 10k| 0 0 |5066 1368 | 0 0 | 3 2 0 0 0
03-12 18:58:11| 0 0 100 0 0 0| 711M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 |5538B 1588B| 425 975 |92.0 2.00 | 3 2 0 0 0
03-12 18:58:12| 5 2 92 0 0 1| 725M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 | 85M 285M| 220k 112k| 127k 226k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:13| 10 4 85 0 0 1| 724M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 2.00 | 0 32k| 166M 556M| 427k 173k| 243k 438k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:14| 10 4 85 0 0 1| 725M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 | 165M 555M| 435k 172k| 243k 438k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:15| 10 4 85 0 0 1| 723M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 | 166M 555M| 440k 172k| 243k 438k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:16| 10 4 86 0 0 1| 724M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 | 166M 555M| 415k 172k| 243k 438k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:17| 10 4 85 0 0 1| 723M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 | 165M 555M| 404k 172k| 243k 438k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:18| 10 4 85 0 0 1| 724M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 5.00 | 0 24k| 165M 555M| 404k 171k| 243k 438k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:19| 10 4 85 0 0 1| 724M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 | 166M 555M| 411k 171k| 243k 438k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:20| 10 4 85 0 0 1| 723M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 | 166M 555M| 412k 170k| 244k 438k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:21| 10 4 85 0 0 1| 722M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 | 166M 555M| 411k 171k| 244k 438k| 3 482 0 0 1
03-12 18:58:22| 5 2 93 0 0 1| 724M 95.3M 1203M 124G| 0 0 | 0 0 | 76M 256M| 190k 81k| 113k 202k| 3 2 0 0 391
```

## Users of Haywire
There's a production system running Haywire that serves `700 million requests a day` from an Aerospike cluster with `2ms or lower` response times.

[pyrs](https://github.com/skogorev/pyrs) Python handlers for Haywire.