September 22, 2016

ChanArchive is a distributed api designed to archive the 4Chan API. It is built to run on Rancher. This is mostly an experiment to gather 4chan usage statistics, as well as load test the Etcd and Cassandra Rancher templates.

The infrastructure comprises four parts:

• etcd, used for distributed locking
• cassandra, a distributed NoSQL database
• ChanArchive node, downloads the content from 4chan
• ChanArchive api, serves the content to end users

• etcd client
• gocql
• go-bindata (Optional: For development only: go get -u github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/... && go-bindata -o ./asset/bindata.go -pkg asset asset/...)

If you have the appropriate dependecies, simply build with go build. Alternatively you can run ./version.sh to embed the build date and git hash into the build.