opaugam / Rsm
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RSM (Replicated State Machines)
Overview
Rust crate providing basic blocks for building distributed systems. It features low level primitives built on atomics as well as higher level constructs such as a Raft toolkit.
The intent is to be able to quickly incorporate non-trivial functionalities in your code, for instance being able to elect a leader or synchronize a proper draining sequence between multiple threads. There are two catches: a) the crate does not implement network I/O and you are responsible for using whatever you prefer, b) it uses half-duplex communication, e.g message passing without direct acknowledgement.
Features
- Fast user-space synchronization primitives built on atomics: lock, read-write lock, gate, once, semaphore, events and more!
- Basic finite state-machine automata, great for building actor systems!
- Fast Raft protocol 100% implemented as an automaton.
- Convenient Python frontend to act as a network I/O proxy.
Please note this is still a work in progress I am working on regularly. It is a great educational resource for whoever wants to learn how things like locks or finite state-machine work. It is not yet published on https://crates.io/ but will be soon.
Example
You often want to experiment when building your next distributed system and want to concentrate on what matter most. You can efficiently use Python as a front-end, for instance to enable gRPC I/O between your nodes, processing configuration files, etc!
The aptly named grpc example provides the protobuf API definition to encapsulate messages, a python front-end buffering over unix pipes and sub-processing a rust executable. Try it (assuming you both have python and grpc installed):
$ cargo build --bin grpc
$ cd examples
$ mkdir api
$ python -m grpc_tools.protoc -I. --python_out=./api --grpc_python_out=./api api.proto
$ python peer.py ../target/debug/grpc --id 0
Et voila, a raft peer is up and running ready to communicate to form a cluster!
Support
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