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Game of Life (crazy) Katas #1. Consul series: getting to know Consul K/V store
https://github.com/arnauorriols/gol-katas-1-consul-kv-store

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Game of Life (crazy) Katas #1. Consul series: getting to know Consul K/V store

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arnauorriols/gol-katas-1-consul-kv-store
• Owner: arnauorriols
• Created: 2016-10-14T23:51:55.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-10-16T18:58:25.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-24T10:34:04.767Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Shell
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• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Game Of Life (crazy) Katas, #1

##  Consul Series: getting to know Consul K/V store

## Description

Inaugurating the Game of Life (crazy) Katas, a GoL implementation using Consul K/V store. The goal

is to get to know the UX of this database, and specially one of its core features: long-polling

subscription to keys.

Featuring: Consul, Curl and Docker.

## Usage

### Start game

```console

$ cat examples/glider.large | ./start.sh

```

### Stop game

(Ctrl-C to exit game)

```console

$ ./stop.sh

```

## Installation

The only system dependency is docker-engine (GTFO if you don't have it installed). The ./start.sh

will take care of the rest.

## Afterthought

* A must feature (even for a real use-case IMHO) that is missing from Consul is the ability to atomically wait for non-existent keys.

* Consul K/V store lacks a nice feature that would be waiting for a whole group of keys to change. Currently it supports waiting in a prefix for any of its subkeys to change, but not all of them. 

* Consul behaves funny sporadically when under stress.