GUguifortaine·Oct 26, 2017Submission
h2: HTTP 2.0 client and server implementation for Rust
111 points · Open discussionhyperium
h2
Rust2017–2020
hyperium / h2
h2
HTTP 2.0 client & server implementation for Rust.
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What it is
HTTP 2.0 client & server implementation for Rust.
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Observed mentions: 2017-10-10 20:08:01 UTC to 2020-10-09 22:52:33 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesProbably not that complete, but getting better. I needed to write some of my own libraries, but for http server/client hyper[0] is fast and quite comfortable. It's getting a http2 support soon[1] and the ecosystem around the tokio[2] framework grows fast.
I need to do fast consuming and for Kafka the situation is quite good, for rabbitmq I have stuff that works but I needed to hack with a knife to get stuff working the way I wanted.
Everything's quite low level in the end and there hasn't been a task I couldn't solve either by myself or finding a library and doing a couple of pull requests to get things running. The hardest was to implement a working HTTP-ECE for web push notifications by reading and understanding all the RFC drafts, but the project[3] teached me a lot. Basically all my consumers deal with millions of events every hour, u
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sing 0.1 cpu's and about 50 megabytes of RAM. Uptimes reaching 2-3 months if I don't need to update the software.
[0] https://github.com/hyperium/hyper
[1] https://github.com/carllerche/h2
[2] https://tokio.rs/
[3] https://github.com/pimeys/rust-web-push