cowboy-高效能簡潔的erlang版web架構

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那麼Cowboy是什麼呢？

Cowboy is a small, fast and modular HTTP server written in Erlang.

其定位非常明確：

Cowboy aims to provide a complete HTTP stack in a small code base. It is optimized for low latency and low memory usage, in part because it uses binary strings.

Cowboy provides routing capabilities, selectively dispatching requests to handlers written in Erlang.

Because it uses Ranch for managing connections, Cowboy can easily be embedded in any other application.

No parameterized module. No process dictionary. Clean Erlang code.

目前還支援websocket和spdy協議(由leofs贊助），是個完整的http協議棧實現，功能強勁。由於是最近才發展起來的，充分考慮了效能，強調代碼的整潔，作者在產品層面對erlang的優缺點非常瞭解，實現的很優雅很高效。 目前多重專案都是用它支撐的，也反過來刺激它走的很穩很快，代碼維護也很活躍，比如競爭者misultin感覺沒有超越的希望就放棄了。

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