The developer created Sanapo, a framework designed to implement microservice-like architecture within a single monolithic process. The platform aims to reduce development and maintenance costs by eliminating the need for external message brokers, complex orchestration, or network calls between internal modules.
The architecture relies on isolated units that act as independent computing entities. Each unit contains business logic and interacts with the system via a Secretary service, which handles asynchronous messaging, command execution, and event subscriptions. Units are categorized into types such as Tikable, Zombie, Sigma, and Utility based on their operational requirements.
To ensure system stability, the framework includes a WatchDog mechanism that monitors thread performance and detects hangs. It uses a dynamic timeout calculation formula that accounts for the number of units in a thread. If a failure is detected, the system initiates an escalation process, attempting to restart components at increasing levels of scope, from individual modules to entire layers.
Sanapo supports distributed networking through a federation model. Multiple instances can discover each other using UDP beacons and establish TCP connections for inter-process communication. The framework includes a central MessageBroker that manages routing, unit registries, and manifests, allowing units to interact across different systems as if they were local.
