Multi-threaded HTTP Server with Thread Pool

Project roadmap

1. 01

   Set up async accept with Boost.Asio

   ~2h

   Build the io_context-based acceptor loop that asynchronously accepts new connections.

2. 02

   Implement the thread pool running io_context

   ~2h

   Run multiple threads calling io_context.run() to process async handlers concurrently.

3. 03

   Implement HTTP request parsing and static file serving

   ~2.5h

   Parse incoming requests and serve files from a document root with correct headers.

4. 04

   Add keep-alive connection handling

   ~2h

   Support HTTP/1.1 keep-alive so a single connection can serve multiple sequential requests.

5. 05

   Add connection and request logging

   ~1.5h

   Log per-request timing and status thread-safely across the pool.

6. 06

   Benchmark under concurrent load

   ~2h

   Use a load-testing tool such as wrk to measure throughput and tune thread pool size.

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