pshenok/server-survival
Server Survival
This project is a cloud infrastructure simulator and system design educational tool. It provides a sandbox environment for designing virtual network topologies and testing the resilience of system architectures under high traffic and simulated attacks.
The platform functions as an infrastructure resilience sandbox where users can experiment with the architectural placement of load balancers, caches, and databases. It allows for the validation of auto-scaling strategies, rate limiting, and firewall configurations to prevent service degradation.
The simulator covers network traffic management, including routing via API gateways and traffic distribution. It includes capabilities for data retrieval optimization through caching and read replicas, as well as security measures for mitigating high-volume attacks. Users can perform system architecture stress tests to evaluate how different infrastructure designs handle traffic mixes and budget constraints.
Features
- Cloud Infrastructure Simulators - Provides a sandbox environment for designing and stress testing virtual network topologies to evaluate resilience under load.
- Infrastructure Stress Testing - Provides a sandbox for experimenting with traffic mixes and budgets to validate infrastructure resilience.
- Database Retrieval Optimizations - Implements memory caches and read replicas to optimize data retrieval and decrease database response times.
- Resource Scaling Strategies - Provides a tiered system for upgrading compute, database, and cache instances to handle increased request volumes.
- Asset Caching Strategies - Implements content delivery networks and cache layers to serve static assets and reduce backend database load.
- Infrastructure Topology Mapping - Maps cloud services and network links as a directed graph to simulate the flow of traffic from internet to backend.
- Logical Infrastructure Topology Design - Provides a system for defining network traffic flows from the internet to the backend via logical links.
- Resilient Infrastructure - Facilitates designing systems with firewalls and rate limits to maintain service health under attack pressure.
- Resilience Simulation Sandboxes - Provides a simulation tool for experimenting with auto-scaling strategies, rate limiting, and firewall configurations.
- Traffic Throttling - Implements rate limiting and traffic throttling to prevent system failure during request bursts.
- Infrastructure Design Simulators - Offers a sandbox environment for building and scaling virtual networks to test different architectural designs.
- System Design Curricula - Acts as an interactive platform for practicing the architectural placement of load balancers, caches, and databases.
- Network Traffic Management - Routes requests through API gateways and load balancers to optimize delivery and prevent single-node overload.
- Network Traffic Routing - Directs different request types through API gateways and load balancers to optimize delivery.
- Traffic Distribution - Balances incoming requests across multiple backend services using round-robin logic to prevent node overload.
- DoS Attack Defenses - Implements firewall-based blocking of malicious traffic to defend against high-volume DDoS attack waves.
- Network Attack Mitigations - Uses firewalls and message queue buffers to block malicious traffic spikes and maintain system stability.
- Deterministic Simulation Environments - Provides a controlled execution environment that uses fixed traffic patterns to ensure reproducible results for architecture testing.
- Infrastructure - Allows experimenting with traffic mixes and load spikes in a sandbox to validate how infrastructure resists failure.
- Caching and Proxies - Implements caching layers and read replicas to reduce backend load and improve data retrieval speeds.
- Database Performance Optimizers - Provides capabilities for implementing SQL and NoSQL databases with read replicas to optimize data retrieval.
- Performance Tier Scaling - Allows increasing system capacity by swapping service instances for higher-performance tiers to handle increased volumes.
- Topology Visualizers - Offers a visual interface for mapping the flow of traffic from gateways to backend services and storage.
- Auto-scaling Strategies - Provides architectural patterns for mixing fixed-capacity servers and auto-scaling functions to balance cost and performance.
- Compute Instance Scaling - Implements the deployment of fixed-capacity servers and auto-scaling serverless functions to handle request growth.
- Traffic Spike Buffering - Implements message queues to temporarily hold traffic spikes and prevent backend services from crashing under sudden load.
- Traffic Filtering Rules - Provides rule-based firewall logic to block malicious request patterns and protect internal networks.
- Infrastructure Health Monitors - Monitors service degradation under load and enables automatic repairs to maintain system operation.
- Performance Analysis Tools - Provides tools for inspecting active services and analyzing real-time load to inform infrastructure adjustments.
- Infrastructure Health Monitoring - Tracks service degradation and performance metrics in real time to trigger automatic infrastructure adjustments.
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