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+FlexiLib
+========
+
+This is a web server written with the following goals:
+
+* Low memory consumption
+* Low latency
+* Flexible "reverse proxy" capabilities
+* Ability to simulate FAAS capabilities of various online providers (AWS, CloudFlare, etc)
+
+This last point is indirectly supported through the ability of the server to
+load, at run time, dynamic libraries to support requests. It will also reload
+these libraries after any in flight requests have completed, to support the
+experience of developing new libaries.
+
+Libraries can be written in any programming language that supports a standard
+Linux C-Based calling convention, which is to say, nearly every programming
+language.
+
+This project provides slightly better development and performance characteristics
+if the library used is written in [zig](https://ziglang.org). An example zig-based
+library can be found in src/main-lib.zig.
+
+Architecture
+------------
+
+We assume Linux.
+To achieve the lowest latency possible and eliminate the proliferation, The architecture of this server is setup 
+
+Security
+--------
+
+There is little attempt to secure libraries from interfering with the current
+thread or even the main process. As such, the libraries should be fully trusted.
+However, libraries themselves may be hardened to run other non-trusted code.
+For example: A "I run WASM code" library may be written to create a WASM VM and
+run user-supplied WASM code. In that case, the "I run WASM code" library is
+trusted, although the code it runs may not be.
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+Very little has been done so far in terms of configuration. By default, the
+number of threads created to serve requests is equal to the number of CPUs
+reported by the system (although thread count is limited to 4 threads when
+compiled in debug mode). This can be controlled with the environment variable
+`SERVER_THREAD_COUNT`.
+
+Future plans include an environment variable for IP address and port to listen
+on, as well as the amount of pre-allocated memory for response data (currently
+hardcoded to 1k/thread). Pre-allocated memory reduces the number of system
+calls required for memory allocation, and pre-allocation/allocation statistics
+per request are reported in the logs.
+
+Logs
+----
+
+Request logs are sent to standard out, and are likely to change. Here is a sample:
+
+```
+127.0.0.1:59940 - - "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 ttfb 2000.420ms 11 ttlb 2000.568ms (pre-alloc: 1569, alloc: 4350)
+```
+
+The first part mirrors common logs from Apache/nginx.
+
+ttfb: Time to first byte. This represents the number of ms of processing within the library
+ttlb: Time to last byte. This includes processing as well a transmission of data
+pre-alloc: The amount of memory actually pre-allocated (1k is just a minimum and the system may allocate more)
+alloc: The amount of memory actually allocated during the request
+