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Application development in a distributed system

Development of Distributed Systems from Design to Application


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= NodeJS -> services readmongo_service, dummy_service
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== asynchronous event-driven
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TIP: As an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.
Almost no function in Node.js directly performs I/O, so the process never blocks. Thanks to this, scalable systems is very reasonable to be developed in Node.js.
https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/blocking-vs-non-blocking/[Overview of Blocking vs Non-Blocking^]
TIP: *Node.js* is similar in design to, and influenced by, systems like *Ruby's Event Machine* and *Python's Twisted.*
Node.js takes the event model a bit further. It presents an *event loop as a runtime construct* instead of a library.
*In other systems, there is always a blocking call to start the event-loop.*
Typically,
- behavior is defined through callbacks at the beginning of a script,
- and at the end a server is started through a blocking call like *EventMachine::run().*
[NOTE]
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In Node.js, there is no such start-the-event-loop call.
- *Node.js* simply *enters the event loop after executing the input script.*
- *Node.js exits the event loop* when there are *no more callbacks to perform.*
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== threads
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Node.js being *designed without threads* doesn't mean you can't take advantage of multiple cores in your environment.
Child processes can be spawned by using our *child_process.fork() API,* and are designed to be easy to communicate with.
TIP: Built upon that same interface is the cluster module, which *allows you to share sockets between processes* to enable load balancing over your cores.
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== socket.io
*Socket.IO* is a library that enables *real-time*, *bidirectional* and *event-based* communication between the browser and the server.
It consists of:
- a Node.js server: Source | API
- a Javascript client library for the browser (which can be also run from Node.js): Source | API
image::bidirectional-communication.png[]
https://socket.io/[See more info here: Socket.io^]
== express
Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.
*Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js*
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== Video = intro
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****
TIP: NodeJS in 10 Minutes and Netflix
video::2gQG4cFjahw[youtube]
video::CZ3wIuvmHeM[youtube]
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netflix
* 6:50 monolithic
* 8:24 minroservices
* 19:00 microservice
* 37:00
https://netflix.github.io[Netflix on Github]