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## Structure of the project
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There are numerous ways how to divide some sort of system into separated
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services, from one single component to many and many single-purpose components.
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Having only one big service is not feasible, not scalable enough and mainly it
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would be one big blob of code which somehow works and is very complex, so this
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is not the way. The quite opposite, having a lot of single-purpose components is
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also somehow impractical. It is scalable by default and all services would have
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quite simple code but on the other hand communication requirements for such
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solution would be insane. So there has to be chosen approach which is somehow in
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the middle, that means services have to communicate in manner which will not
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bring network down, code basis should be reasonable and the whole system has to
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be scalable enough. With this being said there can be discussion over particular
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division for ReCodEx system.
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The ReCodEx project is divided into two logical parts – the *backend* and the
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*frontend* – which interact which each other and which cover the whole area of
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code examination. Both of these logical parts are independent of each other in
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be queried after the job processing is finished. The backend produces a log of
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the evaluation and scores the solution based on the job configuration document.
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From the scalable point of view there are two necessary components, the one
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which will execute jobs and component which will distribute jobs to the
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To make the backend scalable, there are two necessary components -- the one
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which will execute jobs and the other which will distribute jobs to the
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instances of the first one. This ensures scalability in manner of parallel
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execution of numerous jobs which is exactly what is needed. Implementation of
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these services are called **broker** and **worker**, first one handles
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## Implementation analysis
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When developing a project like ReCodEx there has to be some discussion over
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implementation details and how to solve some particular problems properly. This
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discussion is a never ending story which goes on through the whole development
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process. Some of the most important implementation problems or interesting
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observations will be discussed in this chapter.
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Some of the most important implementation problems or interesting observations
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will be discussed in this chapter.
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### General communication
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Overall design of the project is discussed above. There are bunch of components
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with their own responsibility. Important thing to design is communication of
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these components. All we can count with is that they are connected by network.
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To choose a suitable protocol, there are some additional requirements that
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should be met:
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these components. To choose a suitable protocol, there are some additional
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requirements that should be met:
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- reliability -- if a message is sent between components, the protocol has to
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ensure that it is received by target component
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