Drogon C++, The Fastest Web Framework in the World
Drogon is a Web Framework written with C++ that works on both C++14 and C++17 versions.
The TechEmpower website (ranking link) has some benchmark services that test the performance of some technologies and among these tests, it analyzed the performance of Web Frameworks for Back-end and Drogon was the first placed in tests with 105 frameworks, among them: Rails, Django, NestJS, Laravel and others.
The name Drogon comes from the dragon called Drogon from the Game of Thrones series.
It is available for Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows.
Uses an epoll-based non-blocking I/O network library (and in the case for macOS and FreeBSD uses kqueue).
It supports the HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 protocol (for both server-side and client-side);
It has support for cookies and embedded sessions.
It also has support for: HTTPS (with OpenSSL), WebSocket, request and response for JSON format, widely used for Restful API
In addition to AOP with joinpoints and among several other features.