Iodine is a high-performance HTTP and WebSocket server for real-time Ruby applications.
It wraps the facil.io C framework and provides native Pub/Sub, static file serving, and asynchronous networking.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports HTTP, WebSocket, and Server-Sent Events services.
- Provides WebSocket server and client connectivity.
- Offers native process-cluster Pub/Sub functionality.
- Supports horizontal Pub/Sub scaling using Redis.
- Serves static files directly through its C layer.
- Automatically serves pre-compressed gzip assets.
- Supports HTTP/1.1 keep-alive and pipelining.
- Provides asynchronous event scheduling and timers.
- Offers TCP/IP and Unix socket server and client connectivity.
- Supports multiple worker processes and configurable thread counts.
- Includes built-in Mustache templating.
- Provides hot restarts using the USR1 signal.
- Supports custom network protocol development.
- Includes heap fragmentation protection for long-running processes.
- Integrates with Rack applications including Rails and Sinatra.
Website: github.com/boazsegev/iodine
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Developer: Boaz Segev
License: MIT License
Iodine is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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