Solution

split_store

• computes the size and the number of chunks

• stores a file filename_ in the http server, containing the number of chunks and the size of the file

• consecutively store filename_i where i is 0 indexed index of the chunk, stores in tcp if i is even and http if i is odd.

split_fetch

• First fetches the metadata file from the http server,
• Follows the same algorithtm while taking even chunks from tcp and odd from http

Improvements made

• Added threading so that sends to http server, tcp server parallelly
• Was creating temporary files in disk for sending to http server, removed this to reduce disk i/o (increase performance)

Scope for improvement

• Add encryption to both servers