Cloud-Project2-Group8

University Name: http://www.sjsu.edu/

Course: Cloud Technologies

Student:
Abhinaya Yellipeddi

Software Catalogue Subscription Portal (SCSP)-Introduction

SCSP Portal is for enthusiast developers who are keen on knowing the latest releases on software/technologies and the technology news. Users can subscribe to their interests and get updates periodically on the new release/ news.

Sample Demo screenshots

SignUp Page

Login Page

Dashboard Subscription Page

Twitter Integration Page

Techcrunch Integration Page

Settings Page

Pre-requisites Set Up

Configurations to run the code locally

• IDE (Eclipse for Windows/IntelliJ for Mac) for managing the code.

• JAVA 1.7 or above

•credentials: file needs to have the required AWS details (secret key)

Following AWS services need to be configured

1. RDS: Setup a mysql database, create the pre-requisite tables based on the attached script: DBScript.sql (part of the attached code)

2. S3 buckets: S3 buckets are for storing the data related to our application.

3. CloudFront: To manage the content delivery of web pages, we make use of AWS cloudfront service.

4. AWS Polly: AWS service that turns text to speech. When user manages his subscription, you will have Polly confirm to the user on their updates with an audio.

5. AWS Dynamodb: AWS Dynamodb is a no-sql database used to handle the search queries from registered users. When users query new technology, to keep track of such new requirements, is handled via Dynamodb.

6. AWS Lambda: AWS Lambda helps in server less setup and in this project, we have used it to schedule the cron job or upon changes in AWS S3 bucket.

7. CloudWatch: CloudWatch is used to monitor the AWS services and trigger alarms when service has any interruption. We use it to monitor the Lambda trigger

8. SNS: We use this service to trigger email alert for example when there is an update in S3 etc.

9. Elastic Beanstalk: You can host your application using ELB stack. Alternatively, you can configure hosting in AWS EC2 instance too.

10. Route53: If you wish to have your custom url, then you can configure a domain name and redirect from this custom url to your app.

11. AWS Lex: AWS Lex helps us build conversational interface in our application using voice and text.

12. IAM: You need to have a user with required permissions to manage the above resources.

After setting up the resources as above, run the following commands to run the application:

mvn clean install

The application will be accessible on the local host at port 80 (when configured locally)