This project presents a decentralized FTP server meticulously implemented from the ground up using Python socket programming. Moving beyond the limitations of traditional centralized architectures, this solution leverages Docker to distribute server nodes, creating a more resilient, scalable, and robust file transfer network.
Key Technical Highlights & Demonstrated Skills:
- Full FTP Protocol Implementation: Designed and built a custom FTP server, understanding and implementing essential commands and data transfer mechanisms over separate control and data channels.
- Low-Level Socket Programming: Gained deep expertise in network communication by directly managing TCP/IP sockets for efficient and reliable data exchange.
- Distributed Systems Architecture: Engineered a multi-node system where individual FTP servers cooperate, enhancing fault tolerance and load distribution.
- Containerization with Docker: Utilized Docker to encapsulate and deploy each server node, simplifying setup, ensuring consistent environments, and enabling easy scaling of the decentralized network.
- Concurrency & Resource Management: Handled multiple client connections concurrently, optimizing for performance and efficient resource utilization.
Explore this repository to see a robust example of network programming and distributed system design in action!