Restlight

Restlight is a lightweight and rest-oriented web framework.

Features

• HTTP1.1/HTTP2/H2C/HTTPS support
• SpringMVC and JAX-RS annotations support
• High performance: 2 to 4 times Spring Web
• Fully asynchronous: Based on CompletableFuture
• Threading Model: Connector thread, IO thread, Biz thread
• Thread Scheduling: Schedule requests to IO thread pool, Biz thread pool, or any custom thread pool
• Self-Protection: Connection creation limit, CPU load overload protection
• Spring Boot Actuator support
• Extension: Use SPI(enhanced) to extend Restlight
• Layered architecture: Use Restlight in Spring Boot, Spring, and embedded environment without compatibility issues
• more…

Quick Start

Create a Spring Boot application and add dependency

Note：netty 4.1.52.Final and tcnative 2.0.34.Final are directly dependent on.

Note: Please make sure the version of tcnative matches the version of netty.

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.esastack</groupId>
    <artifactId>restlight-starter</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.1</version>
</dependency>

Write your Controller

@RestController
@SpringBootApplication
public class RestlightDemoApplication {

    @GetMapping("/hello")
    public String hello() {
        return "Hello Restlight!";
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(RestlightDemoApplication.class, args);
    }
}

Run your application and then you would see something like

Started Restlight server in 1265 millis on 0.0.0.0:8080

curl http://localhost:8080/hello

Performance

Test cases

• We built an echo server by ESA Restlight and used a http client to do the requests for RPS testing with different bytes of payload(16B, 128B, 512B, 1KB, 4KB, 10KB) and different Threading-Models(IO, BIZ).
• Also we used spring-boot-starter-web(2.3.2.RELEASE) to build a server which is same with above for RPS testing.

Hardware Used

We used the following software for the testing:

• wrk4.1.0

• 	OS	CPU	Mem(G)
  server	centos:6.9-1.2.5(docker)	4	8
  client	centos:7.6-1.3.0(docker)	16	3

JVM Options

-server -Xms3072m -Xmx3072m -XX:MetaspaceSize=128m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=70 -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -Xloggc:logs/gc-${appName}-%t.log -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=20 -XX:GCLogFileSize=480M -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:HeapDumpPath=.

Server Options

Framework	Options
Restlight	restlight.server.io-threads=8 restlight.server.core-biz-threads=16 restlight.server.max-biz-threads=16 restlight.server.blocking-queue-length=512
Spring Web	server.tomcat.threads.max=32 server.tomcat.accept-count=128

RPS

	16B	128B	512B	1KB	4KB	10KB
Restlight(IO)	129457.26	125344.89	125206.74	116963.24	85749.45	49034.57
Restlight(BIZ)	101385.44	98786.62	97622.33	96504.81	68235.2	46460.79
Spring Web	35648.27	38294.94	37940.3	37497.58	32098.65	22074.94

See more details in Reference Doc