Distributed Software (with Python)
summary
Modular Distributed Control System (MDCS) is a Python soft‑real‑time control framework that serializes messages with Apache Avro (binary or JSON schemas), exposes a JSON HTTP API for settings and a binary TCP API for devices using socketserver threaded TCP handlers, and discovers components via multicast network discovery. Devices expose typed attributes and actions; a Lua-based reactor runs automation flows (used to control Philips Hue lights and lab instruments). Design choices favor OS sockets, schema versioning, and no single point of failure.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Types of control systems
- 3:31Modular distributed systems
- 5:10Data serialization
- 9:39API design
- 12:05Network I/O implementation
- 14:56Application architecture
- 20:25Network discovery
- 26:07Modeling devices
- 30:16Device control interface
- 32:13Automation logic
- 34:05Advanced topics and Q&A
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