FabioDainese / Software_Performace_and_Scalability

Web app for compiling and executing C++ files in a sandbox environment

Introduction

The goal of the project was to implement a web application that allows users to upload a C++ program and get in return the output of the compilation and, if this last one succeeds, then also the output of the execution run in a sandbox environment - for obvious security reasons - and carry out a performance analysis by utilizing different tools to identify the possible problems and/or bottlenecks of the real system and to eventually propose further improvements to the design of the application.

The full documentation and benchmarks results are available in the report.pdf file.

All the material was developed for the 'Software Performance and Scalability' Ca' Foscari University master's degree course in 'Software Dependability and Cyber Security' (2021/2022).

Project Files Structure

• client: Frontend part (React)
• server: Backend part (ExpressJS, Node)

How to Run This Code

You can start the application by simply typing the following command. Before executing it though, make sure you have Docker installed and running.

docker compose up

Then, you can reach the web app on http://localhost:3000

Packages Used

For the frontend part:

• React
• Ant Design
• Sass
• Fontawesome
• Axios

Meanwhile, for the backend part:

• Express
• Nodemon
• Cors
• Multer
• Bull

Considerations About Performance

In order to increase the performance of the project here's a possible improvement:

• Consider using more performant web framework (e.g. Actix Web (Rust), Lithium (C++17), Drogon (C++14))