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- mdasen 5y agohttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-yarp-1-0-release/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-yarp-1-0-re... https://aka.ms/aspnet/benchmarks https://aka.ms/aspnet/benchmarks (click on the "1 of 21" pagination at the bottom of the page and select "Proxies"). You can compare it to nginx, envoy, and haproxy.
- MortenToudahl 5y agoAh, beat me to it :-)
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- Thaxll 5y agoSo this thing is 2x faster than Envoy, something wrong in the benchmark probably.
- mdasen 5y agoThe benchmarks seem to show YARP doing around 35% more requests per second, having around 25% less mean latency, 20% less 90th-percentile latency, and 10% less 99th-percentile latency for http-http. Moving to https-https, it's around 10% more RPS, 10% less mean latency, 15% less 90th-percentile latency, while Envoy has 10% better 99th-percentile latency. I'm not sure where you're seeing 2x, but it might be the scale of one of the charts you're looking at being deceiving or I'm not looking at the same test you're looking at.
- davinci26 5y agoI don't think anyone is using Envoy for peak performance. It is slower than haproxy and nginx but it has other advantages: * it is super extensible * truly open-source and open to contributions by companies * the codebase is really modern and easy to reason about
- akshayshah 5y agomdasen has already pointed out that "2x" seems to overstate the difference by quite a bit. YARP also has a spikier max latency, which I'd expect for a GC'ed language. I don't see a way to choose the benchmarking platform in the PowerBI dashboard, so I assume all these numbers were collected on Windows. In that case, it doesn't surprise me that YARP is faster: Envoy uses libevent for cross-platform I/O, but libevent is relatively slow on Windows. It exposes Windows-native I/O completion ports as a BSD-style socket API, and the implementation is both inherently somewhat slow and pushes buffering concerns into the Envoy code. Kestrel, YARP's underlying webserver, uses libuv instead. libuv is more actively developed (because of Node.js) and takes the opposite approach, exposing an IOCP-like API even on POSIX systems. Basically, YARP's I/O model is much closer to Windows' native model. This Envoy issue[0] is really informative if you're interested in the details. More broadly, the .NET team that builds the Kestrel webserver and contributes to YARP and gRPC is full of performance heavyweights. I'd start by assuming that the benchmarks for their projects are thoughtfully designed. Everyone makes mistakes, but start by assuming that James Newton-King, David Fowler, and their peers are brilliant engineers leading a talented team - because they are. I say all this as someone who doesn't particularly love Windows as a development environment, .NET as a language, or Microsoft as a company (quit after just 6 months). Credit where credit's due. [0]: https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/4952#issuecomment-452933724 https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/4952#issuecomment... Edit: moogly points out that my info on the Kestrel implementation is out of date. Mea culpa!
- moogly 5y ago> Kestrel, YARP's underlying webserver, uses libuv instead Kestrel (as used in ASP.NET) uses a Socket-based transport since .NET Core 2.1 The libuv transport was marked as obsolete in .NET 5 and has been removed as of .NET 6, I believe.
- akshayshah 5y agoAh, good to know! I'm barely C#-literate, so the Socket docs[0] aren't totally intelligible to me. Somewhere under the hood, though, there must be a common abstraction sitting in front of the relevant Windows and Linux syscalls - did the libuv stuff just move down a few layers, or is this using something completely different? Either way, I'd be shocked if this weren't designed top-to-bottom to have excellent performance on Windows. [0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.sockets.socket?view=net-6.0 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.socke...
- christophilus 5y agoI’m on mobile, and that page is very slow and very tiny. Anyone got a TL;DR?
- blibble 5y ago50% slower than nginx and haproxy
- metaltyphoon 5y agoCan you even interpret graphs?
- MortenToudahl 5y agohttps://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-yarp-1-0-release/#performance https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-yarp-1-0-re... More here: https://github.com/microsoft/reverse-proxy/issues/40 https://github.com/microsoft/reverse-proxy/issues/40 It was hard to read on my phone, so I don't know if it shows what you want to see.
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- opan 5y agoMIT license, nice.
- older 5y agoI think it was initially Apache licinse but they re-licensed to MIT in order to submit it to CNCF.
- riffic 5y agoYet Another Reverse Proxy. Cute.
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- oneplane 5y agoSometimes it feels like Microsoft and/or C#-enjoyers just want to re-implement everything that already exists. While having many implementations to choose from if you need to select a solution to an outstanding problem is great, it makes me wonder why re-implementing something with no discernible benefit keeps eating time/resources all over the place. In similar cases of implementing reverse proxies in C, C++, Rust, Go and Java, there were generally benefits in various shapes and sizes like different security models, performance vs. capability trade-offs and integrated vs. specialised solutions. In this case, it just seems to be a "we don't want the stuff we didn't build ourselves" which is a shame considering the benefits of pooling resources on existing implementations would have.
- 123pie123 5y ago>Sometimes it feels like Microsoft and/or C#-enjoyers just want to re-implement everything that already exists It sometimes feels to me, like a huge percentage of developers reinvent the wheel
- civilized 5y agoThere are thousands of Java accounting apps and thousands of shitty medical billing websites. I think most devs are definitely reinventing the wheel for the ten thousandth time
- dudeman13 5y ago>There are thousands of Java accounting apps There is already a solution that lets us not reinvent this particular wheel. It's called Excel. I hate using it.
- dqv 5y agoAnd for good reasons. I think there is an almost ignorant annoyance with devs who reinvent, but a lot of times they’re reinventing a punctured wheel or the wheel is for a bulldozer and they need one for a minivan. I had this exact experience: “why should I reinvent the wheel?” Oh this solution doesn’t let you apply partial payments or apply one payment to multiple invoices. This one doesn’t create account statements. This one can’t fax invoices. This one only supports Stripe (and has its own undocumented billing API because who would use anything other than Stripe?). This one has a weird XML definition system for subscription pricing which makes it difficult if not impossible to handle negotiated rates on a per-account basis. Not to mention having to teach billing people how to write the weird XML. This one won’t prorate invoices. This one is a cloud service that costs $100+ a month and is liable to be unavailable when I really need it! They all have weird features that I will never use. Ok, we’ll go with this imperfect one and make some changes. But where’s the entry point? How does weird framework in weird language even work? What are the conventions? How is the original developer differing from those conventions? And then you come to the realization that the wheel gets reinvented because the existing wheels were made with specific business logic in mind. While this can often be generalized for a particular industry or set of use cases, it often does not and can not cover all use cases. The wheel is reinvented. (Not so fast with the XKCD comic about new standards. We’re not imposing standards on others, we just need our software to work for us.) Sometimes the wheel doesn’t need to be reinvented. Some help desk software I wanted to use needed some slight tweaks. The entry points were obvious and the development environment was easy to setup. I made the tweaks and was good to go.
- bob1029 5y agoI'm glad to see Microsoft supporting more low-level magic like this. I've written my own version of ReverseProxyMiddleware more times than I can recall... The most painful parts were always around translating between HttpClient and HttpContext. Looks like Microsoft abstracted this exact concern away under the IHttpForwarder and ForwarderHttpClientContext types. Looking at the docs around this, I'd probably start w/ Direct Forwarding so I have more control over how things route: https://microsoft.github.io/reverse-proxy/articles/direct-forwarding.html https://microsoft.github.io/reverse-proxy/articles/direct-fo...
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- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoThey should’ve called it SNAP: Somebody Needs A Promotion
- rafale 5y agoHow does this compare to nginx? Does it support websockets? I have an asp.net core websocket based app that need to support hundred of thousands concurrent websockets connection. I ll be taking a look at this because I don't wanna expose Kestrel directly to the internet.
- oleksandr_kot 5y agoUsed it several weeks ago at work in an app which actively uses WebSockets. It just works.
- politelemon 5y agoThe main difference I see is that YARP is added right into the dotnet project itself. See the getting started : https://microsoft.github.io/reverse-proxy/articles/getting-started.html https://microsoft.github.io/reverse-proxy/articles/getting-s... From my understanding Kestrel passes request to this. > The proxy server is implemented a plugin component for ASP.NET Core applications. ASP.NET Core servers like Kestrel provide the front end for the proxy by listening for http requests and then passing them to the proxy for paths that the proxy has registered.
- rafale 5y agoI see. So it can operate in-process? Could in theory be much faster than nginx out-of-process model.
- tremon 5y agoWhy would someone need an in-process reverse proxy? I don't see what an in-process proxy would add that a request routing engine couldn't do. Or is the point that you can now add your reverse proxy configuration as just another project within the same solution?
- kcb 5y agoI was assuming more the latter. Also benefit is you can extend and customize in C#.
- imwillofficial 5y ago
- Shadonototra 5y agoanything that requires a giant runtime to run is a big NO for me that's why languages like GO makes more sense for that kind of use cases microsoft not wanting to support CoreRT back in the days was their biggest mistake ever, shame on the people at microsoft who lobbied against it, shame!
- dellamonica 5y agoThey are working on Native AOT for .net 7, which is based on CoreRT. See the issues tracked in the runtime repo. I have been using it with reflection fully disabled in a console app and it produces a 5Mb native binary.
- Shadonototra 5y agook that is VERY encouraging to hear! thanks for letting me know about that EDIT: found it: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/61231 https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/61231
- ripley12 5y agoI wouldn't say it's a giant runtime. A trimmed Hello World .NET app is ~11MB these days - not quite as good as Go, but you can make .NET apps that do quite a lot in under 20MB. And sizes will be going quite a bit lower with NativeAOT this year. https://www.awise.us/2021/06/05/smallest-dotnet.html https://www.awise.us/2021/06/05/smallest-dotnet.html
- chaircher 5y ago"...narp?"
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoYARP is yet a another example of how C# is becoming a dominant systems language. The ease with which you can build a tailor-made reverse proxy is pretty amazing.
- BeefWellington 5y agoI guess I have to ask: What exactly is the use case for a tailor made reverse proxy? What customizations do people typically want to offload to the reverse proxy?
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoThe main use case that comes to my mind is when you want to deploy a proxy in an environment where the developer needs full oversight of the proxy internals and doesn’t want to learn the particulars of configuring any given proxy software suite. Additionally, YARP is cross-platform capable, so you can run the same proxy on Linux, macOS, and Windows. NGINX doesn’t even provide that, for example. In terms of customizations, YARP is more like “what feature do you need to build in” than “how do I need to configure”. You can quickly build a simple reverse proxy and just about as easily setup a full load balancing solution, but the simple use case doesn’t need to include any of the code for the advanced use case.
- Macha 5y ago> Additionally, YARP is cross-platform capable, so you can run the same proxy on Linux, macOS, and Windows. NGINX doesn’t even provide that, for example nginx runs on all three of those platforms. If you mean the binary, this is surely misleading as you just move the burden from getting your platform specific binary to your platform specific .net runtime.
- chunk_it_away99 5y agoNGINX is also more portable. It runs on more architectures and operating systems than .NET/C#. I can literally throw a stick and hit several devices in my office that NGINX runs on but C# does not.
- paraxion 5y agoMy first thought is "wasn't that called ISA?" I can't help but be wary of anything Microsoft announces that's open source. Without engaging in MS-bashing, I always wonder what their motivation is. Then again, part of me wants to believe there's good, avid coders working there.
- CyanLite4 5y ago1997 called and want their outdated MS opinion back. MS is one of the largest open source contributors these days. .Net is open source and cross-platform. They even have an open source Linux distribution. They actively contribute to Rust, webAssembly, the Linux kernel, and Kubernetes.
- heavyset_go 5y agoYour "Microsoft <3's open source" mentality is also out of date[1][2][3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975856 [2] https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/ https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28794352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28794352
- teddyh 5y agoYeah, right. This was two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29579994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29579994
- mukundesh 5y agoOnly available in .NET ecosystem, got excited after I read the title, but forgot Microsoft is Microsoft. "YARP is a reverse proxy toolkit for building fast proxy servers in .NET using the infrastructure from ASP.NET and .NET."
- throwuxiytayq 5y agoI don't get it, what do you even expect them to do? Write it in Java? It's MIT-licensed, you can rewrite it if you wish.
- square_usual 5y agoYeah - whatever language they chose it would be "only available for [that] ecosystem." At some point you've got to pick your home, not like you can write a 100% cross-language framework for anything.
- stanac 5y agoHopefully one day most devs will share one home called wasm runtime. Although not sure if it applies to this scenario (lower-level code).
- maloo 5y agoWASI? there are already prototypes of running .net in WASI that might make it for .net 7 And WASM is already supported, app size about 1MB including runtime and GC
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- pdpi 5y agoIt’s written in C#, probably because they use a bunch of C# internally for this sort of project (who’da thunk it?). That naturally restricts the project to .NET environments. That line could easily have read “for building fast proxy servers in the JVM” or “for building fast proxy servers in node.js” or whatever else, and it would’ve still been just as restrictive.
- dustinmoris 5y agoWorth noting that YARP (or as someone has eloquently described it as PRAY) here was another Microsoft project which basically killed a previous open source project which did the same thing: https://github.com/proxykit/ProxyKit https://github.com/proxykit/ProxyKit
- damianh 5y agoWe know there is an ongoing issue with MS's relationship with .NET OSS ecosystem, but in this case I am totally fine with this. I proved the need of a code-first, highly extensible/customisable reverse-proxy (vs other approaches with config only and/or scripting). I also discovered on my journey there where things that needed to happen in layers I couldn't control nor influence (e.g. HttpClient, Kestrel etc) that YARP team could get done. I expressed these things when I had a meet with the team. Ultimately we got a solid product with a not-too-dissimilar API and I have one less thing to maintain :)
- noduerme 5y ago>> We found a bunch of internal teams at Microsoft who were either building a reverse proxy for their service or had been asking about APIs and tech for building one I'm really curious, does Microsoft have a crew of anthropologists walking around to figure out which team is reinventing wheels?
- amir734jj 5y agoMicrosoft employees here. No actually. It's probably via word of mouth that they realized people are reinventing the wheel.
- noduerme 5y agoYou know how barnacles attach to a whale, to clean it? Maybe you guys need to spin off a whale-cleaner startup =D [edit] I realized it's the fish that clean the barnacles off it. So maybe like that. Anyway I'm just saying that an organization that is carrying that much dead weight just on internal organization is probably desperate for some better method than word of mouth to identify stuff like that.
- kaukas 5y agoI did worked with MSFT for some time. Basically you can do your own stuff, until you need to go to production. And if you do all things right "per process" somebody will "glimps" into your architecture and maybe even code. And in most cases this particular individual has seen a lot and is in the position to identify patterns. TBH I quite enjoyed how their corp machinery is working in the cloud world.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoHonestly I think any company that exceeds a certain size could do with a full time team to investigate and solve NIH and duplication. I mean Google reinvents chat every couple of years, and that's just the ones that come out in public <_<
- seanp2k2 5y agoFundamentally I believe it’s a communication problem + a problem of “engineers gonna engineer” to launch the next Big Win™ for their team / resume. If I were looking for an honest solution for the first part, I might start with a standardized way of classifying technical problems and solitons. Maybe then it would be possible to build a directory of sorts for existing solutions that could be referenced when the need for a solution arises anywhere within the company.
- ThinkBeat 5y agoI am late to the party here. What is the purpose of a reverse proxy? Reading online: security, load balancing, https seems to be mentioned. It appears a bit to me that a reverse proxy is not doing what a web server used to do back in the days of IIS/Apache. I see a lot of programs meant to operate on the web that use very simple http servers.
- dwaite 5y agoI think of a reverse proxy as more of a general architectural pattern - when you have cross-cutting concerns for an application with a relatively broad protocol (HTTP) you can implement them as a networking layer in front of the service(s). Indirection and abstraction are powerful tools in computing. Common reasons for such a split: 1. Composing several different services into a single internet domain 2. Putting stateless or CPU-heavy workloads onto different infrastructure from long-lived, IO-intensive tasks 3. Variation of the above, allow for multiple server processes in server environments which can't scale up to single multi-threaded processes well (CRuby/CPython) 4. Split security concerns off onto a box which has a much smaller attack surface, such as a box meant to be deployed in a DMZ (examples would be HTTPS termination, authentication and authorization policy enforcement) 5. Caching of responses (this is Varnish's claim to fame) 6. Variation of the above, some CDNs work by hitting an otherwise private server for data, then replicating throughout the network for locality to end-users. 7. Application-specific behavior patching, such as adding new API endpoints or changing the behavior of existing ones In many of these cases, people use something like NGINX, Apache or a commercial solution like an F5. In other cases (such as application-specific business logic) people will write their own code, perhaps in the future using this Microsoft project as a starting point.
- littlecranky67 5y agoto add to your list: 8) avoid cross-origin problems and prevent unnecessary OPTIONS preflights that result in uneeded roundtrips by bundling mutiple FEs+BEs into a single origin with different paths (as opposed to mutliple domains/origins).
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- sandreas 5y agoReminds me of Hot Fuzz (2007): https://youtu.be/qR8c-pfMRqA?t=61 https://youtu.be/qR8c-pfMRqA?t=61
- davidfowl 5y agoOne thing I'd like to add as a potential differentiator as well is that YARP runs very well on Windows and because it's build on ASP.NET Core, can run inside of IIS and directly on HTTP.sys as well (which means we can take advantage of cool features like http.sys request delegation where possible https://github.com/microsoft/reverse-proxy/commit/b9c13dbde9e414dfe3872533ecf26309f7ca5a3c https://github.com/microsoft/reverse-proxy/commit/b9c13dbde9...). This means you get platform portability AND deep platform integration for free.