# Azure/DotNetty

DotNetty project – a port of netty, event-driven asynchronous network application framework

Repository: https://github.com/Azure/DotNetty
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dotnetty
Language: C#
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: networking, protocols
Last push: 2026-01-12T23:42:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 51/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 62, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4135, "days_push": 233, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4253, forks 1014 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:40.462247+00:00)

## What it is
DotNetty is a C# port of the Netty project, an asynchronous event-driven network application framework. It enables rapid development of maintainable, high-performance protocol servers and clients on .NET.

## Use cases
- build a custom TCP protocol server in C#
- write high-performance async network clients on .NET
- implement protocol servers and clients similar to Netty
- handle many concurrent socket connections in .NET
- build an RPC or messaging transport layer in C#

## When to choose
- you need Netty-style event-driven networking in a .NET application
- you are building custom binary protocols or high-throughput socket services in C#

## When to avoid
- you only need simple HTTP clients or servers, where ASP.NET Core or HttpClient suffice
- you need the latest Netty features or a very actively developed ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: networking, websocket, http-server, http-client, rpc
- domain: networking, developer-tools, microservices
- platform: dotnet, cross-platform
- tags: netty-port, async-io, protocol-servers, protocol-clients, event-driven

## Member repositories
- Azure/DotNetty (main) score 51

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.462247+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 2026-08-29T18:22:09.941280+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Azure/DotNetty (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:40.462247+00:00, sha 99608b6a6339)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.