Creating a Sender/Receiver HTTP Server for Asynchronous Operations in C++

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Builds a working asynchronous HTTP server using the sender/receiver framework with a coroutine task and an async scope, running multiple clients on a single thread via an IO context. Uses the SD exec implementation (stexac by NVIDIA) and a minimal networking sender proposal, implements read/resize logic, a five second timeout that cancels stalled connections, and a shutdown endpoint. Demo compiles with a few minor bugs but completes a basic server and a client in about 40 minutes.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:17Motivation for HTTP server
3. 3:46Asynchronous server design
4. 8:23Coroutine server skeleton
5. 13:48TCP listener with coroutines
6. 21:01Async client connections
7. 24:30Incremental HTTP parsing
8. 31:06Request processing and responses
9. 35:19Sender performance optimizations
10. 40:51Timeout for connections
11. 53:20Clean server shutdown
12. 1:06:19Simple HTTP client
13. 1:19:44Q&A

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