Questions & Answers API

An accelerated Back-end RESTful API framework for questions and asnswers data, to enhance user experience for the Atelier e-commerce shop.

Accomplishments

Accomplished using 4 AWS t2.micros instances

• Provided low latency requests (<100ms) with a 0.0% error rate under a 1000 rps over 1 minute requirement.
• Stress tested each endpoint of the questions and answers microservice and achieved...
• Used loader.io to identify bottlenecking
• Utilized NGINX for load balancing and caching

How to Use

npm install

npm run server-dev

• To load on a localhost, you will need to create a '.env' file that contains the following:

PGUSER= <user>
PGPASSWORD= <password>
PGHOST=localhost
PGDATABASE= <database_name>
PGPORT=5432

• To load on a AWS instance, your '.env' file should contain the following:

AUTH_TOKEN= <GitHub Token>
PGUSER= <user> 
PGPASSWORD= <password>
PGHOST= <URL>
PGDATABASE= <database_name>
PGPORT=5432

Tech Stack

Deployment

Creator - Peter McBride