#52
B+
Rank #37
Stirling-PDF
Self-hosted web app for common PDF operations (merge, split, compress, convert, OCR) exposed as a set of stateless HTTP endpoints. A strong open-source alternative to paid PDF tool suites.
77.8
/ 100
⚙ Full Stack
Spring Boot (Java) backend wrapping PDFBox/LibreOffice/OCRmyPDF tooling, exposing each PDF operation as a stateless REST endpoint with transient in-memory/temp-file processing per request.
📈 Scaling Analysis
Scales close to ideally for a processing workload — each request is independent and stateless, so adding replicas behind a load balancer linearly increases throughput, with the JVM's memory footprint per large-file operation being the main resource constraint.
🚀 Running on Nexlayer
Single-pod deployment is sufficient since operations are stateless request/response — no DB pod required. Mirror the Java base image via mirror.gcr.io and enable the optional login/security module env vars if exposing it beyond a trusted network.