Dyconit Chat System

The Dyconit Chat System is a scalable chat system, implemented in Python.

It makes use of these libraries:

• gRPC

Installation instructions for developers

1. Make sure you have Python 3 installed
2. Make sure you install grpc. Using Pip, you could do so by running: pip3 install grpcio

Starting the Load balancer:

python3 run_load_balancer.py

Starting the server:

python3 run_server.py

Using the client:

python3 run_client.py <username> spawns a new client which by default will join the global chat. Messages can be sent to the global chat or by specifying a discussion thread:

<message> goes to global chat

<message> | <disc. thread> goes to the specified discussion thread

<message> | global to go back chatting in the global chat room