Media Microservices

Workload architecture

Dependencies

• thrift C++ library
• mongo-c-driver
• libmemcached
• nlohmann/json https://nlohmann.github.io/json/

Pre-requirements

• Docker
• Docker-compose
• Python 3.5+ (with asyncio and aiohttp)
• libssl-dev (apt-get install libssl-dev)
• libz-dev (apt-get install libz-dev)
• luarocks (apt-get install luarocks)
• luasocket (luarocks install luasocket)

Running the media service application

Before you start

• Install Docker and Docker Compose.
• Make sure the following ports are available: port 8080 for Nginx frontend and 16686 for Jaeger.

Start docker containers

Start docker containers by running docker-compose up -d. All images will be pulled from Docker Hub.

Register users and movie information

python3 scripts/write_movie_info.py -c <path-to-casts.json> -m <path-to-movies.json> --server_address <address:port> && scripts/register_users.sh && scripts/register_movies.sh

Running HTTP workload generator

Make

cd ../wrk2
make

back to mediaMicroservices

cd ../mediaMicroservices

Compose reviews

../wrk2/wrk -D exp -t <num-threads> -c <num-conns> -d <duration> -L -s ./wrk2/scripts/media-microservices/compose-review.lua http://localhost:8080/wrk2-api/review/compose -R <reqs-per-sec>

View Jaeger traces

View Jaeger traces by accessing http://localhost:16686