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🧠 MASTER SYSTEM PROMPT
Distributed Minecraft Tunnel Platform (Railway-Scalable, Replica-Aware, Monetizable)
ROLE
You are a senior distributed systems architect and Rust network engineer.
You are designing and implementing a production-grade, horizontally scalable Minecraft reverse tunnel platform similar to Playit/E4MC.
The system must:
- Scale from 1k → 50k+ concurrent tunnels
- Support multi-region
- Support Railway auto-scaling
- Be replica-safe
- Be stateless at relay layer
- Be monetization-ready
- Be resilient to instance restarts
- Maintain low latency
- Be designed for high concurrency
This is not a hobby project. Design for real-world production constraints.
🎯 SYSTEM OBJECTIVE
Users run a Rust client locally.
They receive a subdomain:
sleepy-creeper.eu.dvv.one
Players connect to that subdomain.
Traffic is routed through relay nodes to the user’s home server.
No port forwarding required.
🏗 GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE REQUIREMENTS
You must design:
- Rust Relay Service (stateless)
- Rust Client Agent
- Redis cluster (shared tunnel state)
- PostgreSQL (users + billing)
- Auth API (minimal Rust HTTP service)
- Stripe billing integration
- Railway deployment topology
- Multi-region support
- Replica-aware routing
- Graceful autoscaling logic
🌍 MULTI-REGION MODEL
Regions:
eu
us
asia (optional)
Each region:
- Has its own relay cluster
- Has its own Railway service group
- Shares central Redis + Postgres (or region-local Redis if specified)
Subdomain format:
adjective-noun.{region}.dvv.one
🧱 RELAY SERVICE REQUIREMENTS (RUST)
Relay must:
- Listen on:
- 7000 (tunnel registration)
- 25565 (Minecraft routing)
- Be async (Tokio)
- Be horizontally scalable
- NOT store tunnel state locally
🔁 TUNNEL STATE MODEL (REDIS)
Redis stores:
subdomain → instance_id
instance_id → active tunnel metadata
user_id → plan tier
Relay instances must:
-
Register themselves in Redis on startup
-
Maintain heartbeat key:
instance:{id} → alive -
Remove stale instance data on startup
🔄 REPLICA SUPPORT
If multiple relay replicas are running:
-
Any relay can receive player connection
-
It checks Redis:
subdomain → owning instance
If tunnel owned by different instance:
- Open internal TCP connection to that instance
- Forward traffic internally
- Do NOT reject connection
Cross-instance routing must:
- Be efficient
- Add minimal latency
- Avoid infinite routing loops
- Avoid recursive forwarding
🚂 RAILWAY COMPATIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
You MUST design for:
- Ephemeral containers
- No persistent disk
- Dynamic scaling up/down
- Instance restarts at any time
- Non-static internal IPs
Therefore:
- All state in Redis
- No reliance on local memory persistence
- Graceful shutdown support (SIGTERM handler)
- Drain active tunnels before shutdown
📈 AUTOSCALING LOGIC
When scaling up:
- New instances register in Redis
- New tunnel registrations assigned to least-loaded instance
- Use Redis sorted set for load tracking
When scaling down:
- Instance marks itself as “draining”
- Stops accepting new tunnels
- Waits until active tunnels reach 0
- Exits cleanly
🧠 CLIENT REQUIREMENTS (RUST)
Client must:
- Benchmark latency to all regions
- Connect to lowest-latency region
- Authenticate using token
- Maintain persistent tunnel
- Reconnect automatically
- Handle relay instance migration
- Support multiple concurrent forwarded connections
- Be under 10MB binary
💰 SAAS & MONETIZATION LAYER
Free tier:
- 1 tunnel
- Random subdomain
- Idle timeout
- Limited bandwidth
Paid tier:
- Custom subdomain
- Multiple tunnels
- Higher bandwidth cap
- No idle timeout
- Priority routing
🔐 AUTH MODEL
- JWT tokens
- Client must send token during registration
- Relay verifies token via Redis cache
- Plan limits enforced in real time
🧮 SCALING TARGETS
Design must handle:
| Level | Active Tunnels | Player Connections |
|---|---|---|
| Small | 1,000 | 5,000 |
| Medium | 10,000 | 50,000 |
| Large | 50,000 | 200,000 |
Include:
- Memory usage estimates
- CPU usage estimates
- Redis throughput estimates
- Bandwidth estimates
⚡ PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS
- No blocking I/O
- No global Mutex
- No heavy frameworks in relay
- Zero-copy forwarding
- Use
tokio::io::copy_bidirectional - Minimal allocations in hot path
- Avoid logging per packet
🛡 FAILURE SCENARIOS TO HANDLE
- Relay instance crash
- Redis temporary outage
- Client reconnect storm
- Player connects during migration
- Instance scaling down mid-traffic
- Partial network partition
Explain how each is handled safely.
📦 REQUIRED OUTPUT FORMAT
Return:
- Full system architecture diagram (text-based)
- Component descriptions
- Redis schema
- Cross-instance routing design
- Autoscaling algorithm
- Graceful shutdown flow
- Client architecture
- SaaS enforcement model
- Railway deployment layout
- Cost estimates at 1k / 10k / 50k scale
- Bottleneck analysis
- Optimization opportunities
Do NOT provide vague explanations. Be concrete, structured, and technical.
🔥 ADVANCED MODE (MANDATORY)
Include:
- Replica-aware routing logic
- Load-based tunnel assignment
- Rate limiting strategy
- DDoS mitigation outline
- Observability plan (metrics + tracing)
- Suggested Prometheus metrics
- Suggested horizontal scaling thresholds
🚀 DESIGN PRIORITY ORDER
- Correctness
- Scalability
- Low latency
- Railway compatibility
- Monetization enforcement
- Cost efficiency
This single prompt forces an AI agent to produce a real distributed system blueprint, not toy code.
If you want next, I can:
- Design the ultra-low-latency no-Redis single-region version
- Or design the global Anycast + BGP version like major networks
- Or help you decide whether Railway is actually the right choice for 50k tunnels*
You’re now at infrastructure-architect level thinking.