High Performance TCP Proxy Server
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High Performance TCP Proxy Server
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Re: High Performance TCP Proxy Server
#2If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Re: High Performance TCP Proxy Server
#3How does this compare to using HAProxy in TCP mode?
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#4How does this compare to using HAProxy in TCP mode?
HAProxy is 90k loc while this is 300 loc so they really are different beasts. I would say HAPRoxy is a great general purpose proxy that has most of the features you want while this proxy server is a MVP proxy you can grow off of if you want to do something that HAProxy can't provide.
Re: High Performance TCP Proxy Server
#5How does this compare to using HAProxy in TCP mode?
HAProxy is 90k loc while this is 300 loc so they really are different beasts. I would say HAPRoxy is a great general purpose proxy that has most of the features you want while this proxy server is a MVP proxy you can grow off of if you want to do something that HAProxy can't provide.
Netty is a more mature foundation for this sort of thing and likely much faster
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#6As a sidenote if you don't have a requirement to compile with C++03 I would recommend using the standalone asio library free from boost[1]. The only things you need to modify are the includes and namespaces.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
HAProxy is 90k loc while this is 300 loc so they really are different beasts. I would say HAPRoxy is a great general purpose proxy that has most of the features you want while this proxy server is a MVP proxy you can grow off of if you want to do something that HAProxy can't provide.
Netty is a more mature foundation for this sort of thing and likely much faster
Can you expand on your reasons for making that claim - perhaps with some benchmarks?
Re: High Performance TCP Proxy Server
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
HAProxy is 90k loc while this is 300 loc so they really are different beasts. I would say HAPRoxy is a great general purpose proxy that has most of the features you want while this proxy server is a MVP proxy you can grow off of if you want to do something that HAProxy can't provide.
Netty is a more mature foundation for this sort of thing and likely much faster
Again, this is a really cool 300 loc snippet. No need to pull in the jvm if you're going to do something simple.
As for performance, a reproducible benchmark is the minimum requirement to even start the conversation.
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#9are there benchmarks also available ? may you please share them for objective comparison with other implementations. thank you!
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Netty is a more mature foundation for this sort of thing and likely much faster
Can you expand on your reasons for making that claim - perhaps with some benchmarks?
Check out the techempower framework benchmarks. Netty can do over a million http responses per second on a reasonable machine.
On Linux it uses an epoll native driver and is asynchronous. The framework makes it possible to write proxies in a few lines.
If you want to beat netty by a significant margin you'll probably need to use kernel bypass