postrank-labs/goliath

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2425 stars · 214 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Goliath is an open-source non-blocking (asynchronous) Ruby web server framework built on EventMachine, offering Rack API and middleware support with fully asynchronous request and response processing. It uses Ruby fibers to keep asynchronous code in a linear, readable style without callbacks.

Use cases

• build a high-performance asynchronous Ruby web service
• serve streaming uploads and firehose-style APIs
• handle websockets in a Rack-compatible Ruby app
• write async I/O code without callback spaghetti
• run a lightweight Rack app server on MRI, JRuby, or Rubinius

When to choose

• you need bare-metal async performance in Ruby with readable fiber-based code
• you want Rack middleware compatibility with fully asynchronous request/response handling
• you need streaming uploads, websockets, or HTTP keepalive/pipelining support

When to avoid

• you need a framework with active recent development and modern Ruby support
• you prefer conventional synchronous Rack servers like Puma or Unicorn
• your project depends on a large ecosystem of modern Ruby web frameworks

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

web-framework http-server middleware websocket routing web-development backend apis ruby jvm async eventmachine rack fibers non-blocking-io real-time web-server

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