{"title":"Experience report: developing high performance HTTP/2 server in Haskell","authors":"Kazuhiko Yamamoto","doi":"10.1145/2976002.2976006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"While the speed of the Internet has been increasing, HTTP/1.1 has been plagued by head-of-line blocking, low concurrency and redundant headers. To solve these problems, HTTP/2 was standardized. This paper summarizes our experience implementing HTTP/2 in Haskell. We found several techniques to improve the performance of the header compression and identified a suitable data structure for HTTP/2 priority. Also, we showed that Haskell lightweight threads are useful for HTTP/2 where the common tactics of one lightweight thread per connection cannot be used. The HTTP/2 implementation of Warp, the popular HTTP server library in Haskell, ultimately provides better throughput than its HTTP/1.1 counterpart.","PeriodicalId":20669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Haskell","volume":"151 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Haskell","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2976002.2976006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
While the speed of the Internet has been increasing, HTTP/1.1 has been plagued by head-of-line blocking, low concurrency and redundant headers. To solve these problems, HTTP/2 was standardized. This paper summarizes our experience implementing HTTP/2 in Haskell. We found several techniques to improve the performance of the header compression and identified a suitable data structure for HTTP/2 priority. Also, we showed that Haskell lightweight threads are useful for HTTP/2 where the common tactics of one lightweight thread per connection cannot be used. The HTTP/2 implementation of Warp, the popular HTTP server library in Haskell, ultimately provides better throughput than its HTTP/1.1 counterpart.