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+**Reqser**
+==========================
+
+This is a simple web server built with the Hyper framework. I wrote this as a demonstration of fast request handling in rust.
+
+**Features**
+------------
+
+* Request counting with atomic counters
+* Metric reporting through two API endpoints: `/data/requests` and `/data/cpu`
+
+**Techstack**
+-----------------
+
+* **Lock-free request counting**: Using atomic counters to increment the request count. Lower CPU usage
+* **Sharded request counting**: Dividing the request count among multiple shards.
+* **Time series data storage**: Using a `VecDeque` to store time series data.
+* **Tokio async framework**: Using Tokio to handle asynchronous requests and tasks.
+* **Hyper framework**: Using Hyper to build the web server and handle HTTP requests.
+
+**Build and Run**
+----------------
+
+To build and run the server, use the following commands:
+
+```bash
+cargo build
+cargo run
+```
+
+This will start the server and make it available at `http://0.0.0.0:80`. The metrics endpoints can be accessed at:
+
+* `http://0.0.0.0:80/data/requests`
+* `http://0.0.0.0:80/data/cpu`
+
+**Note**
+----------------
+This "project" has no purpose. I made it to demonstrate that most webapps are ass inefficient. lmao