Please forgive me as I'm a novice in this area. I've been reading various sites on the web and it seems that they all praise FreeBSD for its network stack and that it can do some pretty impressive things. I'm currently looking to create a simple chat application and I'm trying to decide what my server platform should be.
I was thinking of writing the daemon in either Python or Node.js but I'm not sure if that would have a negative effect on network speed compared to using the native C syscalls.
Basically the network traffic is going to be lots of short messages but there could be hundreds every second if it catches on so I'd like some room to grow. I'd also need to handle encryption in the mix too so TLS 1.3 and GnuPG.
What should i concentrate on networking wise?
I was thinking of writing the daemon in either Python or Node.js but I'm not sure if that would have a negative effect on network speed compared to using the native C syscalls.
Basically the network traffic is going to be lots of short messages but there could be hundreds every second if it catches on so I'd like some room to grow. I'd also need to handle encryption in the mix too so TLS 1.3 and GnuPG.
What should i concentrate on networking wise?