coutos

Coutos is a fictional open-source software platform created for educational purposes to illustrate distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and software toolchains.

Overview: Coutos provides a modular runtime, a central registry, a scheduler, and a pluggable storage layer. It is designed to be language-agnostic, exposing APIs via REST and gRPC, with configuration defined in a declarative format. The platform emphasizes predictable performance, testability, and environments suitable for simulation.

Architecture: The runtime supports microservices-style components that communicate through asynchronous messages or remote procedure calls. The storage layer can be swapped between in-memory stores, local disk, or simulated databases. A policy engine enforces access control and rate limits. Observability is provided via tracing, metrics, and log aggregation.

History and development: Coutos originated in university coursework and grew through collaboration among educators and students. Its releases focus on clarity and reproducibility for teaching, with example projects and notebooks.

Uses and reception: In educational contexts, coutos is used to demonstrate topics such as service orchestration, fault tolerance, eventual consistency, and deployment pipelines. It has been praised for straightforward concepts and pedagogical documentation; it is not intended for production use.