proxy

Proxy is a package to build a web server with a local cache and an external cache, like redis.

Installation

Start up service and run tests:

make test

Build proxy and redis contatiners and run, without running tests:

docker-compose up --build

If you have the redis server running in the background, and you do not have the proxy running in the background:

make build-proxy
./bin/proxy

Test stashing a value and key:

curl -X PUT -d "cool" localhost:8080/roxi

Note that the item after the route is the key you want to assign.

To get the value, simply use the key as the route.

curl localhost:8080/roxi

If you have redis-cli installed, you can use it to view your keys.

➜ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> keys *
1) "roxi"

High-level architecture overview

This module has two main components:

• proxy: A go app that has its own in-memory cache. Interacts with external cache for synchronization among other proxy instances.

• external cache: At the moment this is Redis. A cache that is run in its own docker contatiner and is also an in-memory data store that is run seperately from the proxy.

The build is managed with Makefile and docker-compose.yml. The app is written in go.