Outside of google, what other C++ libraries do you think help in writing services in C++. C++ lacks a huge amount of libraries compared to something like java, e.g, I can't even find a half decent http client which handles all the important stuff.
I'm guessing you don't count cURL as half-decent. Because it's API is C++k let alone idiomatic, modern C++?
I've also seen interesting things from Abseil and Folly.
[0] https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines [1]https://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
More likely I'd fork a process in a safer language and direct it to make HTTP calls.