There are 3 components:

• a producer (com.akelius.codechallengeloadhandler.Exercise.Producer) of price updates for stocks. This component generates constant price updates. The producer should not block, every price update has to consumed as quickly as possible.

• a consumer (com.akelius.codechallengeloadhandler.Exercise.Consumer) of price updates for stocks. This component processes the price updates. The consumer is representing a legacy system that cannot consumer more than a certain number of price updates per second.

• a load handler (com.akelius.codechallengeloadhandler.Exercise.LoadHandler) to handle the traffic. This component receives the price updates from the producer and pass them to the consumer. In the current implementation the load handler is just passing on the update to a consumer. This should be changed.

The task of this exercise is to update the LoadHandler to limit the updates per second to the consumer to a certain given number (MAX_PRICE_UPDATES).

If a price update will be sent to the consumer, it has to be the most recent price.

It is allowed to drop price updates.