Deploying to AWS

This tutorial explains how to modify the example project from the Project Setup guide into a cluster.

A clustered Flashbot project is simply a properly configured Akka cluster that runs a number of DataServer and TradingEngine actors. An Akka cluster consists of nodes that communicate with each other over a network. In this section we'll create two Akka nodes, each in it's own DigitalOcean droplet. One node runs a Coinbase market data server, and one runs a trading engine which consumes data from the first node in order to run a backtest and provide charting.

1. Setup AWS instances

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2. Configure Akka Cluster

Add the following section to your application.conf:

akka {
  actor {
    provider = "akka.cluster.ClusterActorRefProvider"
  }

  remote {
    log-remote-lifecycle-events = off
    netty.tcp {
      hostname = 127.0.0.1
      port = ${?akka.port}

      bind-hostname = 127.0.0.1
      bind-port = ${?akka.port}
    }
  }

  cluster {
    seed-nodes = [
      "akka.tcp://ClusterSystem@127.0.0.1:2551"
    ]
  }
}