How the World's Fastest ESB was Made

A couple of years ago, at WSO2 we implemented a new HTTP transport for WSO2 ESB. Requirements for this new transport can be summarized as follows: Ultra-fast, low latency mediation of HTTP requests. Supporting a very large number of inbound (client-ESB) and outbound (ESB-server) connections concurrently (we were looking at several thousand concurrent connections). Automatic throttling and graceful