title: Lwan Lightweight Asynchronous Multi-threaded Event-based Web server
date: 2019-06-10 16:08:53
categories: [web server]
tags: [lwan]
authors: sedlav
What is deadlier than bullet points?
- Low memory footprint (~500KiB for 10k idle connections)
- Small disk footprint: x86-64 executable has 110KiB (~52KiB if packed with UPX)
- Minimal memory allocations & copies
- Minimal system calls
- Hand-written HTTP request parser
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