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Mongrel 2
A quick introduction to the Mongrel 2 webserver protocol.
Will Speak
March 30, 2016
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Transcript
MONGREL 2 Will Speak
A STORY or how Mongrel 2 came to be
RAGEL in the beginning there was the state machine compiler
RAGEL STATE MACHINE COMPILER ⇒ Compiles state machines into code
tokenising, regex & parser combines
fast and efficient parsing
MONGREL then came a
Ruby webserver Rock solid HTTP parser Easily scalable
ØMQ along came a whole lot of nothing
Provides a brokerless messaging architecture where clients and servers communicate
via a Berkeley Sockets style interface “
a standard socket looks just like
a standard socket far more than
MONGREL 2 Add them all together and you get
fast and efficient parsing tried and tested HTTP support brokerless
scalability from Mongrel Ragel ZeroMQ
fast and efficient parsing tried and tested HTTP support brokerless
scalability from Mongrel Ragel ZeroMQ
fast and efficient parsing tried and tested HTTP support brokerless
scalability from Mongrel Ragel ZeroMQ
synchronous http requests offloads
persistent state async protocols &
A PROTOCOL or what Mongrel 2 can do for us
REQUEST/RESPONSE a millisecond in the life of a mongre2 request
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Request 1 Server IIS-01 Headers { “method”: “post”, … }
Path /LockedQueueNoSql Body { “name”: “willspeak”, “affiliates”: [ …. ]}
Request 1 Server IIS-01 Headers { “method”: “post”, … }
Path /LockedQueueNoSql Body { “name”: “willspeak”, “affiliates”: [ …. ]}
Request 1 Server IIS-01 Response [ { … }, {
… }, …. ]
Request 1 Server IIS-01 Response [ { … }, {
… }, …. ]
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NETSTRINGS simple data serialisation
12:hello world!, prefixed by length data encoded as UTF-8 assemble
the delimiter committee
PACKETS inside the envelope
12:hello world!, prefixed by length data encoded as UTF-8 assemble
the delimiter committee
REQUEST PACKET FORMAT IIS-01 1 hello/world 2:{},4:body, webserver id requested
path numeric request id netstring encoded json request headers netstring encoded request body
RESPONSE PACKET FORMAT IIS-01 1:1, hello Mongrel2 webserver id response
data space-separated netstring of response ids
DEMO what you’ve all been waiting for
USEFUL LINKS Mongrel 2 http://mongrel2.org/ https://github.com/mongrel2/mongrel2 Ragel http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ http://zedshaw.com/archive/ragel-state-charts/ ØMQ
http://zeromq.org/ http://netmq.readthedocs.org/ netstrings https://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt