Serving Web Content with Dynamic Process Networks in Go

This paper introduces webpipes, a compositional web server toolkit written using the Go programming language as part of an investigation of concurrent software ar-chitectures. This toolkit utilizes an architecture where multiple functional components respond to requests, rather than the traditional monolithic web server model. We pro-vide a classification of web server components and a set of type definitions based on these insights that make it easier for programmers to create new purpose-built com-ponents for their systems. The abstractions provided by our toolkit allow servers to be deployed using several concurrency strategies. We examine the overhead of such a framework, and discuss possible enhancements that may help to reduce this overhead