weaver

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weaver

The microservice component of athenapdf.

A scalable, Go microservice for running HTML to PDF conversions using athenapdf.

Although it was predominantly designed for generating a PDF from a HTML using athenapdf, it is agnostic about the converter it uses. i.e. You can build an adapter for other CLI or web-based converters.

Features

• Extensible converter backend:
  • athenapdf
  • CloudConvert
• Hosts blocking:
  • Blocks unwanted ads, and trackers
  • Speeds up PDF generation
• Supports uploading conversions to S3
• Supports returning conversions to the browser (application/pdf)
• Concurrent workers, and internal job queue:
  • Stateless
  • Easy to scale horizontally, and vertically
• Strong service visibility for quality control:
  • Metrics collection (statsd)
  • Error logging (Sentry)
• Dockerized:
  • Easy to set up, distribute, and deploy
  • Runs in headless mode (the display server is handled for you)
  • Out-of-the-box support for a broad range of foreign characters
• Actively maintained, and production tested

Quick Start

See docs/quick-start.md.

Development

See docs/development.md.

Building

See docs/building.md.