Yamux
What is Yamux?
Yamux (Yet another Multiplexer) is a powerful stream multiplexer used in libp2p. It was initially developed by Hashicorp for Go, and is now implemented in Rust, JavaScript and other languages. enables multiple parallel streams on a single TCP connection. The design was inspired by SPDY (which later became the basis for HTTP/2), however it is not compatible with it.
One of the key features of Yamux is its support for flow control through backpressure. This mechanism helps to prevent data from being sent faster than it can be processed. It allows the receiver to specify an offset to which the sender can send data, which increases as the receiver processes the data. This helps prevent the sender from overwhelming the receiver, especially when the receiver has limited resources or needs to process complex data.