Advanced · Module 8 · Lesson 9 of 11
Project: High-Throughput HTTP/1.1 Web Server
Architect a production-grade HTTP/1.1 file server integrating non-blocking sockets, Edge-Triggered epoll, zero-copy sendfile, and connection state machines.
By the end you can
- Construct an event-driven HTTP/1.1 server using Linux Edge-Triggered epoll
- Eliminate user-space memory copies via zero-copy sendfile kernel pipelines
- Maintain persistent HTTP/1.1 keep-alive connection state machines without per-request allocations
- Sanitize request URI paths against directory traversal attacks before descriptor retrieval
Builds on Event-Driven Server Architectures: Reactor Patterns and Production Event Loops.
01 · A question first
How do high-performance web servers process over 100,000 requests per second with sub-millisecond latencies while maintaining persistent keep-alive connections? Let us integrate epoll, sendfile, and connection state machines into a complete production server.
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02 · The idea
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- Start with the problem
- How the idea works
- Complete Implementation: Production HTTP/1.1 Server
- Why it is correct
- What it costs
- Pitfalls and variations
- Where it is used
03 · Practice
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