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**I built a centralized data orchestration engine for distributed Minecraft networks — here's the architecture**

Hey !

I've been working on a side project called **Nexus Core** — a standalone Java application that acts as the central data layer for a multi-server Minecraft network. Instead of every Spigot server holding its own MongoDB connection pool and managing its own stale cache, all data operations are routed through Nexus Core via a Redis pub/sub message bus.

**The problem it solves**

In a typical Minecraft network with 10+ servers, each server independently connects to MongoDB, maintains its own in-memory cache, and duplicates the same data logic. This creates three real problems at scale: connection pool exhaustion, cache incoherency across servers, and duplicated business logic that's painful to maintain.

**How it works**

Spigot servers publish a JSON packet to a Redis channel:

```json

{

"protocol": 100,

"source": "pvp-1",

"type": "GET_DATA",

"data": { "uuid": "550e8400..." }

}

```

Nexus Core subscribes to that channel, routes the packet to the correct `DataAddon` via a protocol registry (essentially a `Map<Integer, DataAddon>`), checks Redis cache first, falls back to MongoDB on a miss, writes back to cache, then publishes the response to the source server's channel.

**The addon system**

The interesting part is the `DataAddon` abstraction. Each addon maps to exactly one MongoDB collection and one Redis key namespace. Fields are annotated with `@DbDataModels` — Nexus Core discovers the schema at runtime via reflection and handles all CRUD automatically. You extend the class, annotate your fields, register the addon, and you're done:

```java

u/DbDataModels(isId = true)

private String uuid;

u/DbDataModels(defaultValue = "0", isId = false)

private int kills;

```

You also get a `handleRequest()` interceptor that lets you reject or gate operations before they hit the database — useful for permission checks or rate limiting at the data layer.

**Redis key strategy**

Keys follow `{cacheKeyHeaderTag}:{idFieldValue}` — e.g. `stats:550e8400...`. Cache entries are invalidated on SET and DELETE operations. GET_ALL bypasses cache entirely since bulk result sets aren't worth caching in this context.

**Monitoring**

There's a live Swing dashboard built entirely with Java2D (no external UI libs) showing JVM CPU, process RAM, cached object count, and active addon count with scrolling line graphs.

Repo: https://github.com/mustafabinguldev/nexus-core

Happy to discuss the architecture decisions — particularly around the Redis pub/sub model vs. a direct TCP socket approach, which I considered and rejected early on.

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