# davidfowl/BedrockFramework

High performance, low level networking APIs for building custom servers and clients.

Repository: https://github.com/davidfowl/BedrockFramework
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bedrockframework
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: networking, performance, transport, protocols, dotnet, tcp, sockets
Last push: 2025-09-28T15:25:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 52/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 44, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2594, "days_push": 339, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1133, forks 155 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:42.982386+00:00)

## What it is
Bedrock Framework is a high-performance, low-level networking library for .NET that provides transport-agnostic APIs for building custom servers and clients. It offers builder APIs, middleware, and built-in socket and memory transports, with experimental protocol implementations in a companion package.

## Use cases
- build a custom TCP server in .NET
- implement a custom binary network protocol
- write a high-performance socket client
- create transport-agnostic networking middleware
- build low-latency client-server communication
- prototype protocol implementations on top of sockets

## When to choose
- you need fine-grained control over sockets and transports in .NET
- existing higher-level frameworks like ASP.NET Core are too heavy for your protocol
- you want transport-agnostic client/server abstractions with middleware support

## When to avoid
- you just need a standard HTTP or gRPC server
- you want a fully supported, production-blessed Microsoft library
- you need complete, battle-tested protocol implementations out of the box

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: networking, http-server, middleware, rpc
- domain: networking, developer-tools, backend, performance
- platform: dotnet, cross-platform
- tags: tcp, sockets, transport-agnostic, client-server, protocols, high-performance

## Member repositories
- davidfowl/BedrockFramework (main) score 52

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:42.982386+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:37:25.258866+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/davidfowl/BedrockFramework (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:42.982386+00:00, sha 8deaf25e1f98)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.