The latest articles on DEV Community by Noah (@noah_austin). https://dev.to/noah_austin https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4204679%2F7a762431-a2eb-4d9f-a8fb-70937df61655.png https://dev.to/noah_austin en Noah Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:48:50 +0000 https://dev.to/noah_austin/nio-pulse-11jp https://dev.to/noah_austin/nio-pulse-11jp <p>I wanted to understand how asynchronous, non-blocking I/O works under the hood of frameworks like Netty, so I built a lightweight HTTP/1.1 web server from scratch with zero external dependencies so I built NIO-Pulse.</p> <p>What is NIO-Pulse?</p> <p>Traditional web servers use a thread per connection architecture, which easily bottlenecks under heavy concurrent loads. NIO-Pulse uses an event-driven Selector architecture and a worker thread pool to manage thousands of concurrent connections efficiently.</p> <p>Check it out! 👇<br> <a href="https://github.com/clementezeusgabriel01-iswrtg/NIO-Pulse/tree/main" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/clementezeusgabriel01-iswrtg/NIO-Pulse/tree/main</a></p> java nio webdev opensource