microagent 1.8.2rc1

Tool for agent ecosystem

The goal of this project is to facilitate the creation of microservices interacting via a signal bus and/or queue broker.

The philosophy of this project is to present a microservice as a software agent that directly interacts only with queues and the event bus, and not with other microservices.

Tool is intended for developing:

• distributed apps with event-driven architecture

• distributed apps with data-driven architecture

• multi-processors apps

Tool provide features:

• running a periodical tasks (interval or as CRON)

• specification of signals (events), their sending and receiving via the bus (redis)

• description of queues, sending and receiving messages via the queue broker (aiormq, kafka, redis)

• limited RPC via signal bus

• launching sub-services (in the same process)

• launching a group of microagents (each in a separate process)

• mocks for bus and broker

See MicroAgent documentation.

class Agent(MicroAgent):

    @on('pre_start')
    async def setup(self):
        pass  # init connections to DB, REDIS, SMTP and other services

    @periodic(period=5)
    async def refresh_cache(self):
        pass  # do something periodicly

    @cron('0 */4 * * *')
    async def send_report(self):
        pass  # do something by schedule

    # subscribe to signals (events)
    @receiver(signals.user_updated, signals.user_deleted)
    async def send_notification(self, **kwargs):
        # send signal (event) to bus
        await self.bus.check_something.send(sender='agent', **kwargs)

    # message consumer from queue
    @consumer(queues.mailer)
    async def send_emails(self, **kwargs):
        # send message to queue
        await self.broker.statistic_collector.send(kwargs)


async def main():
    bus = RedisSignalBus('redis://localhost/7')
    broker = RedisBroker('redis://localhost/7')

    # usage bus and broker separate from agent
    await bus.started.send('user_agent')
    await broker.mailer(data)

    agent = Agent(bus=bus, broker=broker)
    await agent.start()

Installing

With redis backend provide signal bus and list-based queues:

pip install 'microagent[redis]'

With aiormq backend provide queues over AMQP (RabbitMQ):

pip install 'microagent[amqp]'

With kafka backend provide queues over Kafka (experemental):

pip install 'microagent[kafka]'