tiagocmendes / restaurant-rpc

This repository implements a drive-through restaurant using a centralized distributed system architecture based on remote procedure calls.

restaurant-rpc

Distributed Systems | UA 2018/2019

Description: This repository implements a drive-through restaurant using a centralized distributed system architecture based on remote procedure calls.

• Create a virtual environment and install requirements:

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

• How to run:

$ ./run.sh [number_of_client.py_processes]

• Example:

$ ./run.sh 3
Starting drive-through.py background process
Starting clerk.py background process
Starting chef.py background process
Starting waiter.py background process
Starting client.py No. 1 background process
Starting client.py No. 2 background process
Starting client.py No. 3 background process

• To kill the processes and remove log files:

$ ./clean.sh

Useful links:

• Work objectives: CD2019G02.pdf
• Python random: https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html#module-random
• Python time: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.sleep
• Python logging: https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html?highlight=log#module-logging
• Python pickle: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html
• Python signal: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/signal.html
• Python oop: https://python.swaroopch.com/oop.html
• Python classes: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html
• zeroMQ: http://zeromq.org/
• Shared Queue (DEALER and ROUTER sockets): http://zguide.zeromq.org/py:all#Shared-Queue-DEALER-and-ROUTER-sockets
• Multithreading with ZeroMQ http://zguide.zeromq.org/py:all#Multithreading-with-ZeroMQ

Author: Tiago Mendes