Simulation of sequential vs asynchronous operations

Running the simulation

1. Go to simulation folder
2. For latency, run in terminal:

   go test -bench=. -benchmem

   This benchmark runs for a non-specified amount of time (until the benchmark is stable). To run for a specific amount of time, run in terminal:

   go test -bench=. -benchmem -benchtime=100x

3. For throughput, run in terminal:

   go test -bench=. -benchmem -benchtime=5s

   The simulation will run for 5 seconds and output the results.
4. To run a complete benchmark:

   go test -bench=. -benchtime=5s -cpu=8 -timeout=0 -benchmem > outputFile.txt

   This will run the benchmark for 5 seconds, using 8 CPUs, with no timeout and memory allocation statistics, it will also output the results to a file called outputFile.txt.

Running docker image

1. Locate to the root of the project
2. Build and run the docker image

docker build -t simulation-benchmark-image .
docker run -it --rm -v ./results:/app/results simulation-benchmark-image bash # This opens up Bash terminal connected to docker instance
go test -bench=. -benchtime=5s -cpu=8 -timeout=0 -benchmem > /app/results/outputFile.txt

Then, the output file will be generated at /results/outputFile.txt

Plan - build docker compose file to run the simulation and output the results to a file.