This project developed at the Mathematical Institute of Goettingen provides an alternative webservice for stack, which is a question type for ilias and moodle focused on math. It is mainly intended to be used as a docker container in a cluster, optimally one supporting autoscaling, as scaling in the service itself is not supported.
This implementation in golang strives to have faster startup and processing times than the corresponding java version by using fork instead of starting a new process for each request. For some more information on how this works, see the documentation.
A docker image can be built by first building the web server with buildweb.sh, which will place the web server executable into ./bin/.
In order for that to work, go needs to be installed.
After that, the docker container for a particular stackmaxima version can be built by invoking buildimage.sh STACKMAXIMA_VERSION with STACKMAXIMA_VERSION substitutet to be the stackmaxima version to base the container off.
Example:
$ ./buildweb.sh
$ ./buildimage.sh 2020061000
The image should then be available as goemaxima:2020061000-dev.
The prebuilt docker images are available from the docker hub at mathinstitut/goemaxima:[version]-latest.
The port of the server in the container is 8080 and the path that has to be input into stack is http://[address:port]/goemaxima.
goemaxima is licensed under the GPLv3.