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RIBS (Robust Infrastructure for Backend Systems) is a library which allows building high-performance backend systems, primarily SaaS, while simplifying the flow of events into the user application without sacrificing performance. The framework is completely event driven and designed to run as single threaded but not limited to. You can 'fork' or run multiple instances in order to utilize all cores on your system, it is recommended to avoid the use of threads. Instead of using threads which are controlled by the OS, RIBS implements and utilizes fibers (co-routines) where the context switching is done in the framework itself and triggered by events. Using fibers in that manner is highly efficient, since the application "knows" when to release control and context-switch, furthermore, the context switching is extremely light-weight compared to normal threads.
In addition, RIBS provides vmbuf, a simple yet powerful way to manage large memory buffers.
RIBS also provides http client and server. (pools, smart persistent connection handling)
With RIBS you can take any library that is provided with ‘.a’ archive file, and “ribify” it to use RIBS provided function calls instead of the default libc. This way you can take a library that is written in a “blocking” paradigm, and run inside a complete event driven system without modifications to the original code. This is proven to be working well with libmysqlclient.a and other libraries. RIBS includes a libmysqlclient example.
Ubuntu 64bit 10.04 or higher, preferably 12.04. Although it was tested on Ubuntu, any Linux distro which is running 2.6.32 (64bit only) or above should be fine as well, however, it was never tested. Please report if you encounter problems.
In order to build the library you will need to install the following packages (under Ubuntu):
- build-essential
- libmysqlclient-dev (optional)
The following tutorials can be found in docs/
- TUTORIAL01 - hello world
- TUTORIAL02 - simple file server
- TUTORIAL03 - Using MySQL via ribify