From 22bc4f4aab65f51c3f33a274dc4ceeb0272312bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Kramer <lennart.kramer@stud.uni-goettingen.de> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:52:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add README --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ed7b54 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +goemaxima +========= +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](/doc/How_it_works.md). -- GitLab