'How to write a web server (service) in OCaml? [closed]
I wish to write a web service server (using http protocol) in OCaml.
For a simple example, I want to write a http server. User can access it and provide parameter like http://myservice.com?i=1&j=2. Then my server get the request and parameters and calculate i+j and return the result.
Of course, my service will be more complicated for the calculation part. Instead of this simple example of calculation, what I really need to do is to
- access the database (MongoDB) to get some data
- access another 3rd party web service to get more data
- calculate all data to get a result and return to the user.
So, I also need to consider parallelism / multi-threading, although I want to start with simple case first.
My questions are:
- Which library should I use to first set up such a
http server? I have looked into Ocamlnet 3 and think it might be a good candidate, but it lacks good tutorial and I still don't know how to usenethttpdornetplexetc. - How should I design the architecture of my web application? I know OCaml is not good at
parallelism, then how can I make each service instance not blocking?
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