NOTE: This README just shows the prompt. Please check out writeup.txt for installation instructions, the code layout, and how to improve the application. Thank you!
Prompt:
Create a simple console program that monitors HTTP traffic on your machine:
Sniff network traffic to detect HTTP activity.
Every 10s, display in the console the sections of the web site with the most hits (a section is defined as being what's before the second '/' in a URL. i.e. the section for "http://my.site.com/pages/create' is "http://my.site.com/pages"), as well as interesting summary statistics on the traffic as a whole.
Make sure a user can keep the console app running and monitor traffic on their machine.
Whenever total traffic for the past 2 minutes exceeds a certain number on average, add a message saying that “High traffic generated an alert - hits = {value}, triggered at {time}”.
Whenever the total traffic drops again below that value on average for the past 2 minutes, add another message detailing when the alert recovered.
Make sure all messages showing when alerting thresholds are crossed remain visible on the page for historical reasons.
Write a test for the alerting logic.
Explain how you’d improve on this application design.