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);