RoadRunner (application server)

RoadRunner is an open-source application server, load-balancer, and process manager written in Golang (Go) and implemented by PHP 7. It is used in rapid application development to speed up the performance of large web applications.

RoadRunner

File:RoadRunnerLogo.png
Original author(s)	Anton Titov
Initial release	January 2018; 2 years ago
Stable release	1.0.0 / June 1, 2018; 17 months ago
Repository	https://github.com/spiral/roadrunner
Written in	Golang, PHP
Type	Application server
License	MIT License
Website	https://roadrunner.dev/

History

Development on RoadRunner began in 2017[*] by Anton Titov. RoadRunner was initially created to handle the peak loads of a large-scale PHP application developed by Spiral Scout. The end application was experiencing anomaly peaks in very short spurts of time which did not allow classic load balancing mechanisms to activate.

Roadrunner uses multi-threading to keep a PHP application in memory between requests, allowing it to eliminate boot loading and code loading processes and reduce latency. Improved RPC communication between the PHP application and its server processes gives Roadrunner the ability to offload some of the heavy communication from PHP to Go.

RoadRunner has been downloaded over 129K times[1].

Product Features

RoadRunner is a production-ready runtime environment for PHP development.

Features:

• Production-ready PSR-7 compatible HTTP, HTTP2, FastCGI server
• No external PHP dependencies (64bit version required)
• Frontend agnostic (Queue, PSR-7, GRPC, etc)
• Background job processing (AMQP, Amazon SQS, Beanstalk and memory)
• GRPC server and clients
• Pub/Sub and Websockets broadcasting
• Integrated metrics server (Prometheus)
• Integrations with Symfony, Laravel, Slim, CakePHP, Zend Expressive, Spiral

Licensing

RoadRunner is open-source software under an MIT license. It can be downloaded and installed as a package from the project page or from GitHub. It is completely free of charge.

External Links

• RoadRunner official website
• PHP to Golang IPC bridge
• GRPC server
• Message queue

Versions

Version	Release Date
v0.9.0	28 January 2018
v1.0.0	13 June 2018
v1.1.1	6 July 2018
v1.2.8	26 December 2018
v1.3.7	21 March 2019
v1.4.8	6 September 2019
v1.5.1	10 October 2019

References

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/8s30bf/roadrunner_php_psr7_application_server_and_load/
2. https://dzone.com/articles/new-dedicated-application-server-revs-php-to-peak
3. http://phpmagazine.net/2019/05/roadrunner-the-php-application-server-written-in-golang.html
4. http://www.wboc.com/story/41002206/spiral-scout-marks-10-year-open-source-anniversary-with-new-product-cycle-orm
5. https://www.nbc-2.com/story/41002206/spiral-scout-marks-10-year-open-source-anniversary-with-new-product-cycle-orm
6. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spiral-scout-marks-10-open-150000864.html?guccounter=1
7. https://dev.to/sergey_telpuk/roadrunner-zend-expressive-cycle-orm-not-allow-to-php-to-die-37p
8. https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/8s30bf/roadrunner_php_psr7_application_server_and_load/
9. https://scottaubrey.info/blog/2018-09-12-roadrunner-a-php-application-server/
10. https://blog.spiralscout.com/php-was-never-meant-to-die-830de87915ee
11. https://weekly-geekly.github.io/articles/434272/index.html
12. https://habr.com/ru/company/badoo/blog/434272/
13. https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/453117-roadrunner-php-application-server-integration/
14. https://packagist.org/packages/spiral/roadrunner
15. https://blog.mayflower.de/8421-roadrunner.html
16. https://phpnews.io/feeditem/roadrunner-high-performance-php-application-server-load-balancer-and-process-manager-written-in-golang