httpteleport

Teleports 10Gbps http traffic over 1Gbps networks. Built on top of fastrpc.

Use cases

httpteleport may significantly reduce inter-server network bandwidth overhead and costs for the following cases:

• RTB servers.
• HTTP-based API servers (aka REST, JSON, JSON-RPC or HTTP-RPC services and microservices).
• Reverse proxies.
• Load balancers.

How does it work?

It just sends batched http requests and responses over a single compressed connection. This solves the following issues:

• High network bandwidth usage
• High network packets rate
• A lot of open TCP connections

Unlike http pipelining, httpteleport responses may be sent out-of-order. This resolves head of line blocking issue.

Links

• Docs

• httptp - standalone single-binary reverse proxy and load balancer based on httpteleport. httptp source code may be used as an example of httpteleport usage.

FAQ

• Q: Why httpteleport doesn't use HTTP/2.0?

  A: Because http/2.0 has many features, which aren't used by httpteleport. More features complicate the code, make it more error-prone and may slow it down.

• Q: Why does httpteleport provide fasthttp- based API instead of standard net/http- based API?

  A: Because httpteleport is optimized for speed. So it have to use fasthttp for http-related stuff to be fast.

• Q: Give me performance numbers.

  A: httpteleport achieves 200K qps on a single CPU core in end-to-end test, where a client sends requests to a local server and the server sends responses back to the client:

$ GOMAXPROCS=1 go test -bench=. -benchmem
goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/valyala/httpteleport
BenchmarkEndToEndGetNoDelay1          	  300000	      4346 ns/op	  60.05 MB/s	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetNoDelay10         	  300000	      4370 ns/op	  59.71 MB/s	       3 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetNoDelay100        	  300000	      4406 ns/op	  59.23 MB/s	       6 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetNoDelay1000       	  300000	      4457 ns/op	  58.55 MB/s	      24 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetNoDelay10K        	  300000	      5868 ns/op	  44.48 MB/s	     178 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetDelay1ms          	  300000	      4771 ns/op	  54.70 MB/s	      21 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetDelay2ms          	  200000	      7943 ns/op	  32.86 MB/s	      31 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetDelay4ms          	  200000	      7741 ns/op	  33.71 MB/s	      31 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetDelay8ms          	  200000	     10580 ns/op	  24.67 MB/s	      26 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetDelay16ms         	  100000	     16923 ns/op	  15.42 MB/s	      50 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetCompressNone      	  200000	      7899 ns/op	  33.04 MB/s	      31 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetCompressFlate     	  100000	     13257 ns/op	  19.69 MB/s	     129 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetCompressSnappy    	  200000	      8158 ns/op	  31.99 MB/s	      40 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetTLSCompressNone   	  200000	      8692 ns/op	  30.02 MB/s	      39 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetTLSCompressFlate  	  100000	     13710 ns/op	  19.04 MB/s	     131 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetTLSCompressSnappy 	  200000	      8480 ns/op	  30.78 MB/s	      42 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetPipeline1         	  300000	      4673 ns/op	  55.85 MB/s	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetPipeline10        	  300000	      4610 ns/op	  56.61 MB/s	       3 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetPipeline100       	  300000	      4576 ns/op	  57.03 MB/s	       6 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkEndToEndGetPipeline1000      	  300000	      4886 ns/op	  53.41 MB/s	      26 B/op	       0 allocs/op