Application Servers

Swoole – programmatic server for PHP

Swoole is a complete PHP async solution that has built-in support for async programming via fibers/coroutines, a range of multi-threaded I/O modules (HTTP Server, WebSockets, TaskWorkers, Process Pools) and support for popular PHP clients like PDO for MySQL, Redis and CURL.

Swoole can be used as a mobile API server, Internet of Things, MicroServices, Realtime Trading Engine, Gaming Server, and as a Live Chat system.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Enhances the efficiency of your PHP applications and brings you out of the traditional stateless model, enabling you to focus on the development of innovative products at high scale, brining event loops and asynchronous programming to the PHP language.
  • Event-driven, PHP Coroutine, PHP Fiber, Asynchronous API.
  • IPv4 / IPv6 / UnixSocket / TCP / UDP and SSL / TLS / DTLS.
  • High performance, scalable, support C1000K.
  • Async TCP / UDP / HTTP / Websocket / HTTP2 Client / Server Side API.
  • Native PHP Coroutine and PHP Fiber Support.
  • Milliseconds task scheduler.
  • Multiprocessing and Daemonize.

Website: openswoole.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Swoole Labs, Transfon Ltd
License: Apache-2.0 License

Swoole is written in C++ and PHP. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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