Distributed Systems Homelab 🏠

Simulating how India's biggest apps work — on 2 real machines at home.

No AWS. No cloud. No monthly bills.

Setup

🍎 M1 Mac → Redis Master 🐧 Lenovo Ubuntu → Worker 🔐 Tailscale → Private VPN

Simulations

Day	Problem	Tech
Day 1	Zomato order assignment	Redis Pub/Sub
Day 2	UPI double payment fix	Redis Lock
Day 3	WhatsApp offline messages	Redis Lists

Tech Stack

• Node.js
• Redis (Docker)
• Tailscale
• Docker

Follow Along

Instagram: @distributed.dev

Run Locally

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/YOURUSERNAME/distributed-systems-homelab

# Install dependencies
cd day-wise-simulation
npm install

# Setup .env
cp .env.example .env