Project Bes

Project Bes is a foundational framework for building a high-performance C++ microservices environment. It contains application templates and an infrastructure that allows you to:

• Communicate easily with the gRPC and Protobuf messages
• Handle to HTTP requests with integrated FastCGI
• Respond to HTTP requests with an high-speed Jinja2-style templating engine
• Distribute quickly in a containerised environment such as Kubernetes
• Be cloud-friendly and cloud-provider agnostic

A core value of this project, in order to ensure stability and high-performance:

• Don't trust random library producers

As such, an absolute minimal external dependency list is mandatory for this project. Dependencies that do make it in must be highly trusted and/or only touch non-critical components.

See the Development Log for ongoing discussion on the development and strategy of the framework.

Documentation Contents

• Contributing - Includes code styles & naming conventions.
• Building
• Testing
• Performance
• Learning Resources

Library Documentation

• Application Kernel
• Core
• DBAL
• FastCGI
• Log
• Net
• Service (gRPC abstraction)
• Templating
• Web

Code Dependencies

Core dependencies:

• gRPC
  • Nexus of RPC applications

Non-critical dependencies:

• YAML C++:
  • Reading application config files
  • Loading routes into a MappedRouter (optional)
• CPP Redis:
  • For Redis session support
• GTest:
  • Running test suites

DBAL Requirements:

• Cassandra: Drivers are required on the OS; see the prerequisites in the building documentation
• BigTable: Google Cloud APIs are included as a project dependency