xbus

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Xbus
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Xbus provides high-level application messaging on top of `NATS`_.


Requirements
============

Golang
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This is a `Go`_ project. We build and test xbus with go 1.13.x

Postgresql
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Xbus uses a `postgresql`_ database 9.5+ to serialize configuration and events.

Build
=====

Build as a regular `Go`_ package::

    make devtools
    make install


Running
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3 binaries are created:

- :ref:`xbusd <xbusd>`: Main Xbus program.

- :ref:`xbusctl <xbusctl>`: Xbus administration program (ctl = "control");
  remotely connects to :ref:`xbusd <xbusd>`.

- :ref:`xbus-client <xbus-client>`: Administration of actors (programs that
  can connect to Xbus).

Each program may be run with ``--help`` to see available commands / flags / etc.

Warning: `xbusd <xbusd>` can produce a LOT of logs when placed under load.
The server will crash if it is unable to write to stdio/stderr.
Init systems that implement rate limitation for logs (such as `systemd`) may
cause `xbusd <xbus>` to crash if the server exceeds this limit.

Updating
========

- The ``migration`` directory contains scripts one can use to migrate Xbus
  databases from one version to the other.