Dmitry Frank 23122b327c Remove old docs, rename docs_new to docs
It would be probably good idea to also remove tools/docgen.py and
asciidoc.mk, but asciidoc.mk is still mentioned under `cloud/doc`, which
may contain some useful info which we'll need at least to review before
removing.

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title: Design Concept
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Mongoose is a multi-protocol networking library that implements non-blocking,
asyncronous IO and provides event-based API. It has three basic data
structures:
- `struct mg_mgr` is an event manager that holds all active connections
- `struct mg_connection` describes a connection
- `struct mbuf` describes data buffer (received or sent data)
Connections could be either *listening*, *outbound* or *inbound*. Outbound
connections are created by `mg_connect()` call. Listening connections are
created by `mg_bind()` call. Inbound connections are those accepted by a
listening connection. Each connection is described by `struct mg_connection`
structure, which has a number of fields like socket, event handler function,
send/receive buffer, flags, et cetera.
Mongoose usage pattern is to declare and initialize event manager, create
connections and create an event loop by calling `mg_mgr_poll()` in a loop.
`mg_mgr_poll()` iterates over all sockets, accepts new connections, sends and
receives data, closes connections, and calls event handler functions for the
respective events.