README.md

Introduction

• Gets USD to HKD exchange rate once every minute, stores 10 succesful results in MongoDB.
• After 3 failed attempts, aborts.
• System is scalable horizontally as long as every worker gets different id and has connection to same Beanstalkd tube and same MongoDB.
• May require updating xe.com custom API in case if xe.com decides to change their HTML structure.

Files

• ./server.js

Initiates worker node.

• ./producer.js

Used only to seed the initial task.

• ./peak.js

Simple admin tools, let's see if there is a job delayed in the queue.

• ./remove.js

Simple admin tools, let's see if there is a job delayed in the queue and removes it.

• ./database.js

Contains all access functions to MongoDB, it is done the way allowing not reconnecting at each request (connection pool)

• ./apixe.js

Custom API to access xe.com service.

• ./handlers/getrates.js

Handler that performs processing of task obtained from Beanstalkd tube.

Dependencies

• soupselect, htmlparser and http for custom xe.com API.
• fivebeans for worker, peak and producer, to access Beanstalkd queue.
• mongodb for accessing MongoDB database.

Remarks

• System is designed to store 10 succesful readings, restarting without clearing record collection will not allow storage 10 new readings.
• Processing is stopped after 3 failures, not necessarily 3 consecutive failures.
• Database is called test, records are stored in aftership collection and failed attempts in failures collection, failures are purged once processing ends.