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-**Drogon** is a C++11-based HTTP application framework. Drogon can be used to easily build various types of web application server programs using C++. Drogon's main application platform is Linux. For debugging purposes, it also supports Mac OS. There is no plan to support Windows. Its main features are as follows:
+**Drogon** is a C++11-based HTTP application framework. Drogon can be used to easily build various types of web application server programs using C++. **Drogon** is the name of a dragon in the American TV series "Game of Thrones" that I really like. 
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+Drogon's main application platform is Linux. For debugging purposes, it also supports Mac OS. There is no plan to support Windows. Its main features are as follows:
 
 * The network layer uses a NIO framework based on epoll (poll under MacOS) to provide high-concurrency, high-performance network IO;
 * Full asynchronous programming mode;