In this project we built a distributed timeline service using kademilia as the core of our implementation. The system allows users to subscrive to other users in order to get their content, allows to publish content, and allows user to see their timeline, which consists in their own messages, and the ones published by users that are subscribed.
Before running this project, you need to have python3 and install the following dependencies using the following command:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Our system has 2 kinds of nodes: bootsrap nodes and normal nodes. This is due to the usage of the kademlia algorithm. In order to run a bootsrap node run the following:
python3 peer.py
To run a normal node you need to specify an ip address, and 2 ports: one to be used by kademlia and another for tcp communication.
python3 peer.py -i 0.0.0.0 -p PORT -tcp PORT
This repository also contains a small test script create with the intent of understanding our application's limits. To do so you need to run:
./run-tests.sh
This project was built as part of Distributed System in Large Scale @ University of Minho:
- A34900 - Cecília Soares
- A84442 - Diogo Ribeiro
- A89982 - Joel Ferreira
- A84244 - Luís Cunha
- A83712 - Rui Mendes