libevent2 and threaded C++ for one project. The http stack seems nice and easy to use, and you get an async http client too. (Server can also run as fastCGI.)

libevent2 and threaded C++ for one project. The http stack seems nice and easy to use, and you get an async http client too. (Server can also run as fastCGI.) Currently I'm proxied by nginx for sanity reasons, but the lack of keepalives to the backend server is a serious problem (under load, you have zillions of sockets waiting to close). Would be a nice thing for nginx to add.