diff --git a/.github/workflows/client.yml b/.github/workflows/client.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b87b044..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/client.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-name: Protobuf Clients
-
-on: [push]
-
-jobs:
-  java-client:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: Setup Java
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v2
-        with:
-          distribution: 'zulu'
-          java-version: '20'
-          cache: 'gradle'
-      - name: Install Protoc
-        uses: arduino/setup-protoc@v1
-        with:
-          version: '3.20.3'
-          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      - name: Compile Protobuf Spec
-        working-directory: ./protobuf/
-        run: protoc --java_out ../client/src/main/java/ clustering.proto
-      - name: Build with Gradle
-        working-directory: ./client/
-        run: ./gradlew build
-      - name: Publish
-        working-directory: ./client/
-        run: ./gradlew publish -Psigning.keyId=${{secrets.SIGNING_KEY_ID}} -Psigning.password=
-        env:
-          OSSRH_USERNAME: ${{secrets.OSSRH_USERNAME}}
-          OSSRH_PASSWORD: ${{secrets.OSSRH_TOKEN}}
-          GPG_KEY: ${{secrets.GPG_KEY}}
-          GPG_PASSPHRASE: ${{secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE}}
-        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/client/build.gradle.kts b/client/build.gradle.kts
deleted file mode 100644
index 657f633..0000000
--- a/client/build.gradle.kts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-plugins {
-    `java-library`
-    `maven-publish`
-    signing
-}
-
-group = "de.tum.cit.ase"
-version = "1.0.0"
-
-tasks.register("version") {
-    println("$version")
-}
-
-val isRelease = !"$version".endsWith("-SNAPSHOT")
-
-repositories {
-    mavenCentral()
-}
-
-java {
-    withJavadocJar()
-    withSourcesJar()
-    toolchain {
-        languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(20))
-    }
-}
-
-dependencies {
-    implementation("com.google.protobuf", "protobuf-java", "3.20.3")
-}
-
-publishing {
-    publications {
-        create<MavenPublication>("main") {
-            from(components["java"])
-
-            pom {
-                name.set("Athena Client")
-                url.set("https://github.com/ls1intum/Athena")
-                description.set("A system to support (semi-)automated assessment of textual exercises.")
-                licenses {
-                    license {
-                        name.set("MIT License")
-                        url.set("https://github.com/ls1intum/Athena/blob/master/LICENSE.md'")
-                    }
-                }
-                developers {
-                    developer {
-                        id.set("jpbernius")
-                        name.set("Jan Philip Bernius")
-                        email.set("janphilip.bernius@tum.de")
-                        url.set("https://ase.cit.tum.de/bernius")
-                        organization.set("Technical University of Munich, Applied Software Engineering")
-                        organizationUrl.set("https://ase.cit.tum.de")
-
-                    }
-                }
-                scm {
-                    connection.set("scm:git:https://github.com/ls1intum/Athena.git")
-                    developerConnection.set("scm:git:ssh://git@github.com:ls1intum/Athena.git'")
-                    url.set("https://github.com/ls1intum/Athena")
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    repositories {
-        maven {
-            val releasesRepoUrl = uri("https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/")
-            val snapshotsRepoUrl = uri("https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots")
-            url = if (isRelease) releasesRepoUrl else snapshotsRepoUrl
-            credentials {
-                username = System.getenv("OSSRH_USERNAME")
-                password = System.getenv("OSSRH_PASSWORD")
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-signing {
-    setRequired { isRelease }
-
-    useInMemoryPgpKeys(System.getenv("GPG_KEY"), System.getenv("GPG_PASSPHRASE"))
-
-    sign(publishing.publications["main"])
-}
diff --git a/client/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/client/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index c1962a7..0000000
Binary files a/client/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/client/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/client/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 37aef8d..0000000
--- a/client/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1.1-bin.zip
-networkTimeout=10000
-zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
-zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/client/gradlew b/client/gradlew
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index aeb74cb..0000000
--- a/client/gradlew
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,245 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-#
-# Copyright © 2015-2021 the original authors.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-##############################################################################
-#
-#   Gradle start up script for POSIX generated by Gradle.
-#
-#   Important for running:
-#
-#   (1) You need a POSIX-compliant shell to run this script. If your /bin/sh is
-#       noncompliant, but you have some other compliant shell such as ksh or
-#       bash, then to run this script, type that shell name before the whole
-#       command line, like:
-#
-#           ksh Gradle
-#
-#       Busybox and similar reduced shells will NOT work, because this script
-#       requires all of these POSIX shell features:
-#         * functions;
-#         * expansions «$var», «${var}», «${var:-default}», «${var+SET}»,
-#           «${var#prefix}», «${var%suffix}», and «$( cmd )»;
-#         * compound commands having a testable exit status, especially «case»;
-#         * various built-in commands including «command», «set», and «ulimit».
-#
-#   Important for patching:
-#
-#   (2) This script targets any POSIX shell, so it avoids extensions provided
-#       by Bash, Ksh, etc; in particular arrays are avoided.
-#
-#       The "traditional" practice of packing multiple parameters into a
-#       space-separated string is a well documented source of bugs and security
-#       problems, so this is (mostly) avoided, by progressively accumulating
-#       options in "$@", and eventually passing that to Java.
-#
-#       Where the inherited environment variables (DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS,
-#       and GRADLE_OPTS) rely on word-splitting, this is performed explicitly;
-#       see the in-line comments for details.
-#
-#       There are tweaks for specific operating systems such as AIX, CygWin,
-#       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
-#
-#   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
-#       within the Gradle project.
-#
-#       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
-#
-##############################################################################
-
-# Attempt to set APP_HOME
-
-# Resolve links: $0 may be a link
-app_path=$0
-
-# Need this for daisy-chained symlinks.
-while
-    APP_HOME=${app_path%"${app_path##*/}"}  # leaves a trailing /; empty if no leading path
-    [ -h "$app_path" ]
-do
-    ls=$( ls -ld "$app_path" )
-    link=${ls#*' -> '}
-    case $link in             #(
-      /*)   app_path=$link ;; #(
-      *)    app_path=$APP_HOME$link ;;
-    esac
-done
-
-# This is normally unused
-# shellcheck disable=SC2034
-APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-# Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
-MAX_FD=maximum
-
-warn () {
-    echo "$*"
-} >&2
-
-die () {
-    echo
-    echo "$*"
-    echo
-    exit 1
-} >&2
-
-# OS specific support (must be 'true' or 'false').
-cygwin=false
-msys=false
-darwin=false
-nonstop=false
-case "$( uname )" in                #(
-  CYGWIN* )         cygwin=true  ;; #(
-  Darwin* )         darwin=true  ;; #(
-  MSYS* | MINGW* )  msys=true    ;; #(
-  NONSTOP* )        nonstop=true ;;
-esac
-
-CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
-
-
-# Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM.
-if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then
-    if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then
-        # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables
-        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java
-    else
-        JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
-    fi
-    if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then
-        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME
-
-Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-location of your Java installation."
-    fi
-else
-    JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
-
-Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-location of your Java installation."
-fi
-
-# Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
-if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
-    case $MAX_FD in #(
-      max*)
-        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
-        MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
-            warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
-    esac
-    case $MAX_FD in  #(
-      '' | soft) :;; #(
-      *)
-        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
-        # shellcheck disable=SC3045
-        ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
-            warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
-    esac
-fi
-
-# Collect all arguments for the java command, stacking in reverse order:
-#   * args from the command line
-#   * the main class name
-#   * -classpath
-#   * -D...appname settings
-#   * --module-path (only if needed)
-#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and GRADLE_OPTS environment variables.
-
-# For Cygwin or MSYS, switch paths to Windows format before running java
-if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
-    APP_HOME=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$APP_HOME" )
-    CLASSPATH=$( cygpath --path --mixed "$CLASSPATH" )
-
-    JAVACMD=$( cygpath --unix "$JAVACMD" )
-
-    # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
-    for arg do
-        if
-            case $arg in                                #(
-              -*)   false ;;                            # don't mess with options #(
-              /?*)  t=${arg#/} t=/${t%%/*}              # looks like a POSIX filepath
-                    [ -e "$t" ] ;;                      #(
-              *)    false ;;
-            esac
-        then
-            arg=$( cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg" )
-        fi
-        # Roll the args list around exactly as many times as the number of
-        # args, so each arg winds up back in the position where it started, but
-        # possibly modified.
-        #
-        # NB: a `for` loop captures its iteration list before it begins, so
-        # changing the positional parameters here affects neither the number of
-        # iterations, nor the values presented in `arg`.
-        shift                   # remove old arg
-        set -- "$@" "$arg"      # push replacement arg
-    done
-fi
-
-
-# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
-
-# Collect all arguments for the java command;
-#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
-#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
-
-set -- \
-        "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
-        -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
-        org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain \
-        "$@"
-
-# Stop when "xargs" is not available.
-if ! command -v xargs >/dev/null 2>&1
-then
-    die "xargs is not available"
-fi
-
-# Use "xargs" to parse quoted args.
-#
-# With -n1 it outputs one arg per line, with the quotes and backslashes removed.
-#
-# In Bash we could simply go:
-#
-#   readarray ARGS < <( xargs -n1 <<<"$var" ) &&
-#   set -- "${ARGS[@]}" "$@"
-#
-# but POSIX shell has neither arrays nor command substitution, so instead we
-# post-process each arg (as a line of input to sed) to backslash-escape any
-# character that might be a shell metacharacter, then use eval to reverse
-# that process (while maintaining the separation between arguments), and wrap
-# the whole thing up as a single "set" statement.
-#
-# This will of course break if any of these variables contains a newline or
-# an unmatched quote.
-#
-
-eval "set -- $(
-        printf '%s\n' "$DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS $JAVA_OPTS $GRADLE_OPTS" |
-        xargs -n1 |
-        sed ' s~[^-[:alnum:]+,./:=@_]~\\&~g; ' |
-        tr '\n' ' '
-    )" '"$@"'
-
-exec "$JAVACMD" "$@"
diff --git a/client/gradlew.bat b/client/gradlew.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index 6689b85..0000000
--- a/client/gradlew.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-@rem
-@rem Copyright 2015 the original author or authors.
-@rem
-@rem Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-@rem you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-@rem You may obtain a copy of the License at
-@rem
-@rem      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-@rem
-@rem Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-@rem distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-@rem WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-@rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-@rem limitations under the License.
-@rem
-
-@if "%DEBUG%"=="" @echo off
-@rem ##########################################################################
-@rem
-@rem  Gradle startup script for Windows
-@rem
-@rem ##########################################################################
-
-@rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
-
-set DIRNAME=%~dp0
-if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
-@rem This is normally unused
-set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
-set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
-
-@rem Resolve any "." and ".." in APP_HOME to make it shorter.
-for %%i in ("%APP_HOME%") do set APP_HOME=%%~fi
-
-@rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS="-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"
-
-@rem Find java.exe
-if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome
-
-set JAVA_EXE=java.exe
-%JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1
-if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto execute
-
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
-
-goto fail
-
-:findJavaFromJavaHome
-set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=%
-set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe
-
-if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto execute
-
-echo.
-echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME%
-echo.
-echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
-echo location of your Java installation.
-
-goto fail
-
-:execute
-@rem Setup the command line
-
-set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar
-
-
-@rem Execute Gradle
-"%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain %*
-
-:end
-@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
-if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd
-
-:fail
-rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
-rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
-set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
-if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
-if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
-exit /b %EXIT_CODE%
-
-:mainEnd
-if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal
-
-:omega
diff --git a/client/settings.gradle b/client/settings.gradle
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b4c1c3..0000000
--- a/client/settings.gradle
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-rootProject.name = "athena-client"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/client/src/main/java/.gitignore b/client/src/main/java/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 279b4a3..0000000
--- a/client/src/main/java/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-de/tum/cit/ase/athena/protobuf/*.java
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/protobuf/Makefile b/protobuf/Makefile
index 0850298..4836979 100644
--- a/protobuf/Makefile
+++ b/protobuf/Makefile
@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
-all: java_client python_client
-
-java_client: clustering.proto
-	protoc --version || (echo "Please install protoc: https://grpc.io/docs/protoc-installation/"; exit 1)
-	protoc --java_out ../client/src/main/java/ clustering.proto
+all: python_client
 
 python_client: clustering.proto
 	protoc --version || (echo "Please install protoc: https://grpc.io/docs/protoc-installation/"; exit 1)
 	protoc --python_out ../load-balancer/src/ clustering.proto
 
 clean:
-	rm -rf ../client/src/main/java/de/tum/in/ase/athene/protobuf/*.java
 	rm -f ../load-balancer/src/clustering_pb2.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/protobuf/clustering.proto b/protobuf/clustering.proto
index 0a5d8b5..9767273 100644
--- a/protobuf/clustering.proto
+++ b/protobuf/clustering.proto
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ syntax = "proto3";
 
 // import "job.proto";
 
-option java_multiple_files = true;
-option java_package = "de.tum.cit.ase.athena.protobuf";
-
 message Segment {
     string id = 1;
     optional int32 submissionId = 2;