10-31-22 Tag

Sunset for h5serv

John Readey, The HDF Group Before there was HSDS, there was h5serv. Released in 2015, h5serv was the first implementation of the HDF Rest API. Designed mainly as a way to demonstrate the RESTful interface for HDF, h5serv had a fairly simple implementation: A single threaded application that on receiving an HTTP request, made the equivalent HDF5 library call and converted the result to a JSON response which was returned to the client. Though useful for some applications, in the context of building a scalable web service, there were limitations with this approach. Since there was only one process in the h5serv application, each HTTP request had to be completely processed before handling the next one. This made it quite easy to...