Lunar relay outbox
Difficulty 4 of 5
The Moon base chat must answer each message within 300 ms. Every message must also reach the archive on Earth, 1.28 s away one way, within 30 s, and none may be lost. Today the chat waits for Earth on every message.
Lasers in orbit, New York to London · 7,151 km · 24 ms one way
Goals and limits
- p99 latency
- under 300 ms
- Lost writes
- none
- Completion time
- under 30 s
- Monthly cost
- under 60 USD/mo
- Parts you can add
- Message broker, Managed queue, Kafka log, Worker, API server, Postgres, Key-value store
- Part limit
- 5
- Traffic
- 5 req/s
Concepts
How players did
Player results load from the server.