Load Balancer for Distributed Key-Value Store

I implemented a load balancer in the 2nd semester of university with personal variants of data structures, such as: linked lists, circular lists and hash tables. It distributes key-value pairs across multiple servers and retrieves values from the appropriate server.

Functionality

The load balancer provides the following functionality:

• Store key-value pairs
  
• Retrieve values for a given key
  
• Add new servers to the load balancer
  
• Remove existing servers from the load balancer
  

How to Use

To use the load balancer, call the apply_requests function and pass it an input file. The input file should contain requests, one per line, in the following format:

• "store" followed by a key-value pair in quotes
  
• "retrieve" followed by a key in quotes
  
• "add_server" followed by a server id (integer)
  
• "remove_server" followed by a server id (integer)
  

Example

For example, the input file:

store "key1" "value1" <br>
store "key2" "value2" <br>
retrieve "key1" <br>
add_server 1 <br>
store "key3" "value3" <br>
remove_server 1 <br>
retrieve "key3" <br>

will produce the following output:

Stored value1 on server 0. <br>
Stored value2 on server 1. <br>
Retrieved value1 from server 0. <br>
Stored value3 on server 2. <br>
Key key3 not present. <br>

Compiling and Running

To compile the program, run the following command:
make

To run the program, use the following command:
./load-balancer input-file