Cadana Exchange Challenge

Overview

The Cadana Exchange Challenge involves building a client that retrieves exchange rate data from multiple services, selecting results from the quickest response, and discarding slow requests. This document provides a brief description of the challenge's goal and outlines the architecture used.

Architecture

Goal

Build a client that efficiently retrieves exchange rate data by prioritizing responses from the fastest services, discarding slower ones.

Tools used

Go (programming language)
Docker (containerization platform)
Docker Compose (orchestration tool for Docker)
Redis (in-memory data structure store)

Setup

Prerequisites

Ensure that Docker is installed on your machine before proceeding.

Instructions

Clone the repository to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/josephakayesi/cadana

Navigate to the project root.
```
cd cadana
```
Start the exchange servers and client servers using Docker Compose.
```
docker compose up
```
Access the people module and start the application that consumes data from the client server and performs manipulations on the Person objects.
```
cd people
go run cmd/main.go
```