Reminds me quite a bit of websocketd as well, which converts a stdin/stdout program to a websocket: http://websocketd.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

I hadn't even considered collecting traces/spans in this way yet, and have taken the approach of "stuff outputting logs in JSON format to stderr/local file". I usually end up writing a (temporary, structured) log message with the relevant span tags, but wouldn't it would be much better to run the actual trace/span code and be able to verify it locally without the ad-hoc log message? The prototype I built is a web... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

I also used to use this (http://websocketd.com/) along with netcat(1) before just biting the bullet and writing my own websocket library for our server as we needed to scale up slightly. Source: over 1 year ago

Http://websocketd.com/ (Runs command line C or C++ programs as websocket programs, similar to inetd / CGI). Source: over 2 years ago

> How would one go about building a rest service in C++? I'd use https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon if the app needs to be pure C++ or Cutelyst (https://cutelyst.org/) if it's a Qt app which needs to expose an http server. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Could do both! https://cutelyst.org looks neat, and BrewTarget is written with Qt. Source: over 2 years ago

Nice to see another C++ web framework :D for those interested there is also Cutelyst (https://cutelyst.org/) but I never tried it. Source: almost 3 years ago