multiple-servers project instructions

README.md

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    <br>Learn about long-running processes, HTTP and `curl`.
 1. [Servers & Databases](./server-database) - `impl/server-database`
    <br>Build a server that takes data from a database and serves it in `json` format.
+1. [Multiple Servers](./multiple-servers) - `impl/multiple-servers`
+   <br>Build and run file & API servers behind Apache in a simple multi-server architecture.
 
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multiple-servers/README.md

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+# Multiple servers
+
+![Architecture of this solution](./readme-assets/architecture.png)
+
+Create file server to serve static HTML files. Create an API server that serves JSON from a database. Run the API and file server as two separate servers. Try to load the website & see CORS issue. Put apache in front of the file server and the API so they are on a single port and hostname. Learn about how to run services in VMs in the cloud. Replicate this local setup in the cloud on a single VM, with all services running on the same host. Route requests to the service.
+
+Timebox: 10 days
+
+Learning objectives:
+
+- Basic microservices ideas, separating concerns of services
+- Configure apache to talk to 2-3 copies of the API server
+- Some web security ideas (CORS)
+- Reverse proxy configuration, routing on path
+- Health checks
+- Running applications in the cloud on a raw VM
+- Using cloud-hosted services like databases
+- Multi-environment configuration