Balance incoming requests to ensure good service by buffering requests for slow/expensive resources.
Blondin is a lightweight HTTP proxy that is capable of throttling requests to a configurable subset of proxied resources.
Blondin takes the form of a single executable jar, and may be started with the following command line:
java -jar blondin-main-0.0.1.jar myconfig.properties
Configuration is achieved with the use of a properties file:
# Blondin Core Configuration
port=9999
targetHost=localhost
targetPort=8080
throttleSize=16
expensiveResourcesUrl=http://some/expensive/resources/list
# Logging
logDirectory=/var/log/blondin
# StatsD Metrics
statsd.host=metrics
statsd.port=2013
Blondin utilises a handful of special HTTP requests to allow status inquiry:
GET /info/version
GET /info/stoppable
GET /info/health
GET /info/status
Blondin is named after Charles Blondin, a famous tightrope walker, who was unarguably good at balancing.
