== Introduction

Ranch is a socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.

Ranch aims to provide everything you need to accept TCP connections
with a small code base and low latency while being easy to use directly
as an application or to embed into your own.

=== Prerequisites

It is assumed the developer already knows Erlang and has some experience
with socket programming and TCP protocols.

=== Supported platforms

Ranch is tested and supported on Linux, FreeBSD, OSX and Windows.

Ranch is developed for Erlang/OTP R16B+.

There are known issues with the SSL application found in Erlang/OTP
18.3.2 and 18.3.3. These versions are therefore not supported.

Ranch may be compiled on earlier Erlang versions with small source code
modifications but there is no guarantee that it will work as expected.

=== Versioning

Ranch uses http://semver.org/[Semantic Versioning 2.0.0]
