Platform

• php >= 7.2 (served best with FPM)
• MySQL database backend
• Redis database backend

Run configuration

Application entrypoint is public/index.php, all the requests must be marshalled here. When running application rely on environment variables. Initial subset of variables is expected in .env located in project root. .env.dist can be used as a blueprint.

Database

Application uses MySQL and Redis as storage backends.

Migration

$ php artisan migrate --force
$ php artisan migrate:rollback --force

Seeding command

Usually takes place upon first deployment to populate DB with initial values

$ php artisan db:seed --force

API

• RPC [GET] /ping - health check endpoint must return 200 OK if service is configured
• REST resource /polls - polls CRUD
• RPC [POST] /polls/{id}/vote - to vote in defined poll
• RPC [GET] /polls/{id}/results - poll results
• RPC [GET] /summary - polls summary

CLI

# Periodic collect to aggregate polls statustics which will be used in /summary API endpoint
$ php artisan polls:collect:status

# Running unit tests
$ php vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.xml