abstract
Distributed Pong is an educational project that implements the classic Pong game in a distributed environment, showcasing various networking patterns and distributed system concepts. The project adopts a flexible architecture centered around a coordinator-terminal pattern, where a coordinator (server) manages the overall game state and synchronizes multiple terminals (clients). This report documents additional implementations of communication protocols such as ZeroMQ and WebSockets (with a RESTful API for game start coordination), and an alternative state management solution using etcd with a basic leader election mechanism and state synchronization using events pushed on the etcd database.
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