# RoadRunner

🤯 High-performance PHP application server, process manager written in Go and powered with plugins

Repository: https://github.com/roadrunner-server/roadrunner
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/roadrunner
Homepage: https://docs.roadrunner.dev
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: application-server, golang, workers, supervisor, php, psr-7, http, rpc, roadrunner, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-24T22:04:05+00:00
Link (homepage): https://docs.roadrunner.dev
Link (site_page): https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/readme
Link (site_page): https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/quick-start
Link (site_page): https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/install
Link (site_page): https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/config

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 89, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3172, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 77, "gap_med": 25, "n_releases_24m": 22}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8499, forks 426 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:23.154221+00:00)

## What it is
RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server and process manager written in Go, extensible through a plugin system. It runs PHP applications as persistent worker processes and ships plugins for HTTP/2/3, gRPC, queues, KV storage, WebSockets, and observability.

## Use cases
- replace nginx + php-fpm with a faster php application server
- serve php http apps with psr-7 workers
- run a php grpc server
- process background jobs with rabbitmq, kafka, or sqs from php
- run temporal workflows from php
- add websockets to a php app via centrifuge
- supervise and auto-scale php worker processes

## When to choose
- you need high-throughput php serving without per-request bootstrap overhead
- you want an all-in-one server with queues, kv, grpc, and metrics built in
- you use Laravel, Symfony, Yii, or Spiral and want long-running workers

## When to avoid
- you rely on shared-hosting or apache mod_php deployment
- your app depends on per-request state assumptions of classic php-fpm
- you need a pure PHP solution without a Go binary

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: http-server, rpc, message-queue, caching, monitoring, websocket, middleware, workflow-automation, cli
- domain: backend, web-development, developer-tools, self-hosted, apis, performance
- platform: windows, go, php, cross-platform
- tags: php-application-server, process-manager, worker-pool, psr-7, grpc, temporal, nginx-fpm-alternative, plugin-system, opentelemetry, linux, macos, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- roadrunner-server/roadrunner (main) score 96
- roadrunner-server/goridge (sdk) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.154221+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 2026-08-29T17:26:43.289400+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/roadrunner-server/roadrunner (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.154221+00:00, sha cf63c6895b07)
  - homepage: https://docs.roadrunner.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.307700+00:00, sha 8c034a037e88)
  - site_page: https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/readme (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.310416+00:00, sha e7f9416ad1ee)
  - site_page: https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/quick-start (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.312469+00:00, sha 69df16c78b58)
  - site_page: https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/install (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.314330+00:00, sha 0c06955d8a71)
  - site_page: https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/config (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.316078+00:00, sha 0e5c28123060)
  - site_page: https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/contributing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.317947+00:00, sha c85feca46237)
  - site_page: https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/general/compatibility (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.319749+00:00, sha cdb32796cb8f)
  - site_page: https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/php-worker/worker (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.321621+00:00, sha 471b72a252b4)
  - site_page: https://docs.roadrunner.dev/docs/php-worker/pool (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:58.323481+00:00, sha 0b1bba9e651e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.