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S: a scripting language for high-performance RESTful web services

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Daniele Bonetta,

Achille Peternier,

Cesare Pautasso,

Walter BinderAuthors Info & Claims

PPoPP '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

Pages 97 - 106

https://doi.org/10.1145/2145816.2145829

Published: 25 February 2012 Publication History

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There is an urgent need for novel programming abstractions to leverage the parallelism in modern multicore machines. We introduce S, a new domain-specific language targeting the server-side scripting of high-performance RESTful Web services. S promotes an innovative programming model based on explicit (control-flow) and implicit (process-level) parallelism control, allowing the service developer to specify which portions of the control-flow should be executed in parallel. For each service, the choice of the best level of parallelism is left to the runtime system. We assess performance and scalability by implementing two non-trivial composite Web services in S. Experiments show that S-based Web services can handle thousands of concurrent client requests on a modern multicore machine.

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Index Terms

S: a scripting language for high-performance RESTful web services
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Parallel computing methodologies
    1. Parallel programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Parallel programming languages

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PPoPP '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

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352 pages

ISBN:9781450311601

DOI:10.1145/2145816

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Louisiana State University, USA
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 47, Issue 8
PPOPP '12
August 2012
334 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/2370036
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