Sovereign is the Supreme Ruler of the Lemmings.
The word is Sovereign - sov - ver - n. It's known as a noun and a sovereign is a supreme ruler, such as a monarch, or a state with independent authority and self-governing power. But, as a proper noun, Sovereign is a Go package that I wrote that commands lemmings with the same metaphor.
What Are Lemmings
In 1991 a video game was released called Lemmings and I played it. I always viewed lemmings as these Non Player Characters - or NPCs. Another word you could use for them are agents, like in AI agents. But, what lemmings are cannot be described as an AI Agent but rather a session-based stateful bot that records a LifeLog and reports back to the Sovereign.
That video game inspired me to build the Open Source package called lemmings that is designed to perform a load test on your endpoint. Instead of meaninglessly hitting the endpoint and tracking the response codes, lemmings attempts to go one step further using the Go language to bring the concept of meaningless hitting the endpoint to be dressed up in something as fun and metaphorical as a lemming itself. In the content of free and open source software lemmings provides anybody worldwide with immediate access to an incredibly powerful piece of software that generates detailed reports in conclusion of the tests it performs.
Before any legitimate organization is going to send the masses of people to their website, try sending a massive amount of automated traffic that follows a script that you define for it to follow.
So, lemmings are unintelligent bots that are stateful, session based that are responsible for hitting your website endpoint at the rate and parameters that you request, and the lemmings will mindlessly carry out their -plan if they have one, or they will use the -crawl and the sitemap.xml in order to stumble into the next page to hit.
What Is Sovereign?
I created the sovereign package to control the lemmings. In this product that I built and offer as a Subscription As A Service that is a few bucks per year per developer plus usage that is billed additionally. The language of the Sovereign is How many planets do I want? The language of the Sovereign is How many terrains are going to be on each planet? The language of the Sovereign is How many lemmings are going to exist on each terrain? The language of the Sovereign is Give me each lemmings' life log and let me see if they completed the task that I asked them to perform. That's the language of the Sovereign, and in this package's case, thats exactly what you are provided with. The metaphor works nicely in the case of load testing and prepping a business for a major launch of a new TV spot or a product that the company knows will have high demand.
Why Sovereign Was Built
I first had to build lemmings which uses a handful of packages that I built myself over the last 7 years since I became fluent in Go. I learned Go before AI and wanted to in order to leverage AI for its intended majestic purpose.
I built sovereign because I needed it in 2015 when Mike Hogan from Barron's Magazine reached out to me because he loved Trakify! I did too, thats why I built it. I relied on Yahoo Finance data, and when that was pulled and discontinued, the product lost its value without a $50,000/month subscription that was offered to me to pay to keep the site online. I said thanks but no thanks. I couldn't afford it and I wasn't willing to go into debt for $35/month of monthly recurring revenue after being online for a month since the publication and the data getting pulled. Given that I built PhoenixVault including the writer, search and merkel before AI was a thing, I too kind of needed this then too. My views of OSINT and data and programming are unchanged over my triple decade career that started writing AppleScript for my grandmother's computer because she had a faulty printer cable that kept causing a system disconnection of the printing services that needed remediation each time the washing machine caused the desk to shake and the wire loosen. The thing was screwed into the computer, it wasn't going anywhere, but the software thought it was disconnected and so my script fixed that. For me to accept that kind of a contract after the Barron's spot that I received from Mike, would be to refuse to write the script for my grandmother. It would have profited me more not writing the script and getting $5 from her each time that I fixed her printer. I chose to turn down money in pursuit of open source intelligence that liberates pain from your life and offers you sovereignty in a limited form. When your computer is acting up and you're the boss of it, it's liberating knowing that the Government is the Sovereign over the Citizen because it offers you that same degree of power.
The sovereign is designed to work with AI and the -plan functionality within the lemmings package itself. It'll look at your site, it'll look at what content you have, and it'll plan for dozens of personality types that are going to be going into your site and hitting it, and the sovereign is responsible for doing this. The -plan is constructed with AI and then executed on -planets with contintents known as -terrains that have lemmings running around on the surface. Functionality like SSH and SCP are handled via the sovereign package itself. You'll get a report of the result of each lemmings' lifelog and their recorded experience, when errors are encountered and problems occur with the lemming itself, it gets captured in a manner that is helpful to any engineer or AI agent that needs to debug each reported problem.
Given that I am using AI for my development workflow, I'll be incorporating the Sovereign Lemming Service throughout the following weeks and launching the LemmingSaaS.com service.
If you're interested in using Sovereign please reach out.
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