To avoid having to either hard-code or manually configure service addresses (possibly several dozen), and to reduce the project's dependency on docker to deal with routing and discovery, the option to use [Zookeeper](https://zookeeper.apache.org/) to manage services and discovery has been added.
A service registry interface was added, with a Zookeeper implementation and a basic implementation that only works on docker and hard-codes everything.
The last remaining REST service, the assistant-service, has been migrated to gRPC.
This also proved a good time to clear out primordial technical debt from the root of the codebase. The 'service-client' library has been taken behind the barn and given a last farewell. It's replaced by a small library for managing gRPC channels.
Since it's no longer used by anything, RxJava has been removed as a dependency from the project.
Although the current state seems reasonably stable, this is a work-in-progress commit.
Guava's hashers are a bit allocation hungry, and a big driver of GC churn in the crawler. This switches to the modified Murmur hash function used throughout Marginalia.
This is a first step of using WARC as an intermediate flight recorder style step in the crawler, ultimately aimed at being able to resume crawls if the crawler is restarted. This component is currently not hooked into anything.
The OkHttp3 client wrapper class 'WarcRecordingFetcherClient' was implemented for web archiving. This allows for the recording of HTTP requests and responses. New classes were introduced, 'WarcDigestBuilder', 'IpInterceptingNetworkInterceptor', and 'WarcProtocolReconstructor'.
The JWarc dependency was added to the build.gradle file, and relevant unit tests were also introduced. Some HttpFetcher-adjacent structural changes were also done for better organization.
This functionality needs to be accessed by the WarcSideloader, which is in the converter. The resultant microlibrary is tiny, but I think in this case it's justifiable.
... also move some common configuration into the root build.gradle-file.
Support for JDK21 in lombok is a bit sketchy at the moment, but it seems to work. This upgrade is kind of important as the new index construction really benefits from Arena based lifecycle control over off-heap memory.