Welcome to the Student Social Network application designed specifically for students of Thu Dau Mot University. The primary aim of this application is to create a platform where students can connect, build relationships, and share career opportunities in a vibrant and interactive environment.
This application is built upon a microservices architecture, designed to facilitate interactions among students of Thu Dau Mot University in a dynamic social environment focused on networking and career opportunities.
Responsibilities: Balances load, handles user authentication and authorization, enforces rate limits, and routes users to respective services. Integration: Interfaces with User service for user authorization, appending custom headers to requests before forwarding them to corresponding services.
Responsibilities: Manages user data and authentication and handles user permissions and roles.
Responsibilities: Manages post creation and interactions, including likes, shares, and comments.
Responsibilities: Manages real-time messaging functionalities, supporting both personal and group chats.
Responsibilities: Facilitates community creation and management, allowing users to form and administer groups with specialized content.
Responsibilities: Manages socket connections for real-time features within the application.
- Authentication: Api Gateway verifies user requests and authorizes access by interfacing with the User service.
- Custom Headers: Custom headers are added to requests before routing them to the appropriate services.
- Synchronous Communication: Services call local APIs of other services synchronously, waiting for responses.
- Asynchronous Communication: Inter-service requests are handled through RabbitMQ message queues to ensure scalability and reliability.
Saga Pattern: Implemented to maintain data consistency across distributed services, ensuring transactional integrity in asynchronous communication.
Deployed using Docker Swarm, leveraging its automated network management for seamless service discovery and load balancing.
Docker Swarm automatically manages virtual DNS entries for services, eliminating the need for a separate discovery server traditionally required for IP management and load balancing.
Two-Step Verification: Users can enable two-step verification for added security, configurable within the settings. Login and Registration: Seamless and secure user authentication and registration process.
Post Creation: Users can create posts with text and images. Post Interaction: Like, share, and comment on posts to engage with the community.
Friend Requests: Users can send and accept friend requests. Friend Recommendations: The system suggests potential friends based on user activity. Friend Profiles and Timelines: View information and timelines of friends and followers.
Personal Messaging: Send messages to individual users. Group Messaging: Create and participate in group chats. Messaging Features: Invite others to conversations, customize chat settings, and send images.
Community Groups: Users can create groups for specific interests or activities. Group Posts: Share posts within the group. Group Administration: Group creators act as admins, managing and approving posts within the group.
Profile Settings: Customize personal profiles to reflect individual preferences and information.
Two-Step Verification Settings: Enable and manage two-step verification for enhanced security. Login History: View and monitor login history for account security.
