Huge

Micro-services orchestration and monitoring for node.js

Installation

Caution: Do not use until version 1.0.0; all current releases are meant only for development and testing. Version 1 release will solidify the api and internals; expected November 2015

> npm install huge

What is this

Huge is a framework that allows you to design and build a system using small, independent node.js applications (called micro-services). These processes can communicate with each other using built in service discovery.

The framework plays to node's strengths to create small precise applications instead of building complex monolithic systems.

Huge is not designed for infinite scalability or (twitter|google|facebook) size loads. I use it for benefits in code quality, isolation and organization. The name is #ironic.

Features

• Easy orchestration of dependent applications
• Lightweight, provides a simple layer over proven components
  • Service discovery using internally monitored consul process
  • Process monitoring with forever-monitor
  • Load balanced instances using built-in cluster module
  • Log consolidation using bunyan
• Focus on low memory usage in production

Roadmap to 1.0

• Process monitoring with forever-monitor
• Log consolidation using bunyan
• Allow consul to be run externally and passed in as a client
• API documentation
• Connect remote nodes (currently single server only)
• Integration tests
• Examples + open-source some services

Future releases

• Windows and OSX support

Example

const myNode = huge.node.create({
   name: 'web',
   services: [
      huge.source.local('/path/to/my-db-server'),
      huge.source.local('/path/to/my-authentication-api'),
      huge.source.local('/path/to/my-web-server')
   ],
   // todo: remote dependencies (see @roadmap:1.0)
   //
   // remote: {
   //    hosts: [
   //       'other.server.com:8500'
   //    ],
   //    inputs: [
   //       'ACTIVITY_FEED_HOST',
   //       'ACTIVITY_FEED_PORT'
   //    ]
   // }
});

huge.start(myNode, {
   port: 8500,
   logger: huge.console
});