This project provides you with a basic framework to build your project 1 nodes. This is not a complete project nor a fully tested and robust solution. It is your responsibility to extend and validate the project. Communication: A common approach for distributed systems is to separate domain requests from management (internal) requests. The motivation is often driven by a need to provide the highest potential to prioritize and control resources. This project provides a design for two networks. The connections are: 1) public for satisfying data requests 2) private (mgmt) for internal synchronization and coordination Thundering Herd Problem: The queue management uses a single thread to manage the inbound requests. A scaling option to use a reactive model that increases the number of threads as the entries in the queue increase to handle the increased work load. This approach is used rather than having many pre-created threads as we do not want to have resources taken and awakened all at once to vie for a single task (this is the thundering heard problem). Storage: A storage framework is provided to show you a way (others exists) to decouple domain logic from backend persistence.