Evaluating Dora for Robust Distributed Systems: Networking & Security Questions

[glight2000]

Hi, thanks for the great work on Dora — the distributed build capabilities look really promising.

I’m considering using Dora to build a relatively complex distributed system, and I have a couple of questions:

Handling unstable networks: Are there any recommended best practices for debugging and testing communication reliability and performance in environments with intermittent or unstable network conditions? For example, tools or patterns to identify bottlenecks, latency issues, or message loss.

Secure communication: Does Dora support encrypted connections out of the box, or integration with standard protocols such as SSH for secure communication between nodes?

Appreciate any guidance or pointers. Thanks!

[heyong4725]

@glight2000 to answer your two questions:
Handling unstable networks: Dora uses Zenoh https://github.com/eclipse-zenoh/zenoh as its communication layer, mostly best effort. currently most of Dora's use cases are local, very few or almost none of use cases are distributed, so we don't have much best practices. If you can contribute in this area, that will be fantastic.

Secure communication: this one is also not actively addressed. For distributed settings, Dora will use whatever Zenoh provided capabilities.