# Nipper

**Lightweight, embeddable MQTT broker for BEAM-based edge applications**

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Nipper is a minimal MQTT v3.1.1 broker designed to run within your Elixir/Phoenix application's supervision tree. Perfect for edge computing, IoT gateways, and embedded systems where you need local MQTT messaging without the overhead of a separate broker service.

## 🚀 Features

### Core MQTT Protocol
- ✅ **MQTT 3.1.1** full protocol implementation
- ✅ **QoS 0 & QoS 1** message delivery
- ✅ **Persistent & clean sessions**
- ✅ **Keep-alive mechanism** with configurable timeouts
- ✅ **Will messages** and **retained messages**
- ✅ **Topic subscriptions** with wildcard support
- ✅ **Binary payload** support

### Security & DoS Protection 🛡️
- ✅ **Rate limiting** with sliding window algorithm
  - Connection rate limiting (per IP)
  - Message rate limiting (per client)
  - Authentication failure protection
- ✅ **Packet size enforcement** with configurable limits
- ✅ **Resource monitoring** and automatic cleanup
- ✅ **Memory usage monitoring** with automatic GC
- ✅ **Pluggable authentication** system

### Architecture & Performance
- ✅ **Embedded-first**: Runs within your supervision tree
- ✅ **BEAM-native**: Leverages OTP patterns and Phoenix.PubSub
- ✅ **GenStage pipeline** for event streaming
- ✅ **High-performance TCP** with ThousandIsland
- ✅ **Non-blocking I/O** and efficient message routing
- ✅ **Automatic resource cleanup** on process crashes

### Observability & Monitoring
- ✅ **Comprehensive telemetry** using `:telemetry`
- ✅ **Connection lifecycle tracking**
- ✅ **Message flow monitoring**
- ✅ **Rate limiting alerts**
- ✅ **Memory usage alerts**
- ✅ **Resource monitoring events**

### Development & Testing
- ✅ **207+ comprehensive tests** (unit + integration)
- ✅ **Property-based testing** with StreamData
- ✅ **Code coverage** tracking
- ✅ **Static analysis** with Credo and Dialyzer
- ✅ **Benchmarking** support

## 🏃 Quick Start

### Installation

Add `nipper` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:

```elixir
def deps do
  [
    {:nipper, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end
```

### Basic Setup

Add to your application's supervision tree:

```elixir
defmodule MyApp.Application do
  use Application

  def start(_type, _args) do
    children = [
      # Your existing children...
      Nipper.Supervisor
    ]

    opts = [strategy: :one_for_one, name: MyApp.Supervisor]
    Supervisor.start_link(children, opts)
  end
end
```

### Configuration

Configure in `config/config.exs`:

```elixir
config :nipper,
  # Listener configuration
  listeners: [
    default: [
      port: 1883,
      transport: :tcp,
      acceptors: 100,
      max_connections: 10_000
    ]
  ],
  
  # Authentication
  auth: [
    module: Nipper.Auth.AllowAll  # For development
  ],
  
  # Protocol limits
  protocol: [
    max_packet_size: 65_536,
    max_client_id_length: 128,
    default_keepalive: 60
  ],
  
  # Rate limiting (DoS protection)
  rate_limiter: [
    connection_limit: 10,      # connections per minute per IP
    message_limit: 100,        # messages per minute per client
    auth_limit: 5             # auth failures per 5 minutes per IP
  ]
```

### Testing Your Setup

Start your application and test with a simple MQTT client:

```bash
# Terminal 1: Start your application
iex -S mix

# Terminal 2: Test with mosquitto_pub/sub
mosquitto_sub -h localhost -p 1883 -t "test/topic" &
mosquitto_pub -h localhost -p 1883 -t "test/topic" -m "Hello, Nipper!"
```

## 📚 Advanced Usage

### Custom Authentication

Create a custom authentication module:

```elixir
defmodule MyApp.MqttAuth do
  @behaviour Nipper.Auth

  @impl true
  def authenticate(conn_info) do
    %{client_id: client_id, username: username, password: password} = conn_info
    
    case verify_credentials(username, password) do
      {:ok, user_info} -> 
        {:ok, %{user_id: user_info.id, permissions: user_info.permissions}}
      :error -> 
        {:error, :not_authorized}
    end
  end
  
  defp verify_credentials(username, password) do
    # Your authentication logic here
  end
end
```

Configure it:

```elixir
config :nipper,
  auth: [module: MyApp.MqttAuth]
```

### Telemetry Integration

Set up telemetry handlers for monitoring:

```elixir
# In your application startup
:telemetry.attach_many(
  "mqtt-metrics",
  [
    [:nipper, :client, :connected],
    [:nipper, :client, :disconnected],
    [:nipper, :message, :published],
    [:nipper, :rate_limit, :exceeded],
    [:nipper, :memory_monitor, :warning]
  ],
  &MyApp.TelemetryHandler.handle_event/4,
  %{}
)
```

### Upstream Integration

Configure event streaming to external systems:

```elixir
config :nipper,
  upstream: [
    enabled: true,
    transport: MyApp.UpstreamTransport,
    producer: [batch_size: 100, batch_timeout: 1000],
    batcher: [max_batches: 10]
  ]
```

## 🏗️ Architecture

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Nipper.Supervisor                   │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐    │
│ │   Listener  │ │RateLimiter  │ │ResourceMon  │    │
│ │(ThousandIs.)│ │   (ETS)     │ │ (GenServer) │    │
│ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘    │
│                                                     │
│ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐    │
│ │MemoryMon   │ │   Router    │ │  Upstream   │    │
│ │(GenServer)  │ │(Phoenix.PS) │ │ Producer    │    │
│ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

### Key Components

- **Nipper.Listener**: ThousandIsland-based TCP server
- **Nipper.Connection**: Per-client connection handler
- **Nipper.RateLimiter**: DoS protection with sliding windows
- **Nipper.ResourceMonitor**: Process monitoring and cleanup
- **Nipper.MemoryMonitor**: Memory usage tracking and GC
- **Nipper.Router**: Message routing via Phoenix.PubSub
- **Nipper.Upstream.Producer**: Event streaming pipeline

## 🧪 Development

### Running Tests

```bash
# Unit tests
mix test --exclude integration

# All tests
mix test

# With coverage
mix test --cover
```

### Code Quality

```bash
# Static analysis
mix credo --strict
mix dialyzer

# Documentation
mix docs
```

### Benchmarking

```bash
# Connection benchmarks
mix run benchmarks/connections.exs

# Message throughput
mix run benchmarks/messages.exs
```

## 📊 Performance

### Benchmarks (on modern hardware)

- **Connections**: 1000+ concurrent clients
- **Message throughput**: 10,000+ messages/second
- **Memory usage**: <100MB for 1000 clients
- **Latency**: <1ms message routing

### Resource Limits (configurable)

- **Max connections**: 10,000 (default)
- **Max packet size**: 65KB (default)
- **Rate limits**: 10 conn/min, 100 msg/min per client
- **Memory thresholds**: 100MB warning, 500MB critical

## 🛣️ Roadmap

### Version 0.2.0 (Planned)
- [ ] MQTT 5.0 protocol support
- [ ] SSL/TLS transport layer  
- [ ] Persistent message storage
- [ ] WebSocket transport support
- [ ] Enhanced authentication providers

### Version 0.3.0 (Planned)
- [ ] Cluster support and horizontal scaling
- [ ] MQTT bridge functionality
- [ ] Message transformation plugins
- [ ] Docker containerization
- [ ] Kubernetes deployment manifests

## 🐛 Known Limitations

This is version **0.1.0** - suitable for development and small-scale deployments:

- **Single-node only** (clustering planned for 0.3.0)
- **In-memory only** (persistence planned for 0.2.0)
- **MQTT 3.1.1 only** (5.0 support planned for 0.2.0)
- **TCP only** (WebSocket/SSL planned for 0.2.0)

## 🤝 Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature`)
3. Add tests and ensure they pass (`mix test`)
4. Run code quality checks (`mix credo`, `mix dialyzer`)
5. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add amazing feature'`)
6. Push to the branch (`git push origin feature/amazing-feature`)
7. Create a Pull Request

## 📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- [ThousandIsland](https://github.com/mtrudel/thousand_island) for high-performance TCP
- [Phoenix.PubSub](https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_pubsub) for scalable messaging
- [GenStage](https://github.com/elixir-lang/gen_stage) for event streaming
- The Elixir and OTP communities for the excellent foundations

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