Cruddur is a project designed to provide hands-on experience with cloud and DevOps practices while building a real-world, Twitter-inspired ephemeral social media platform. In Cruddur, users can post, view, and interact with messages, all of which have a limited lifespan and disappear after a specified time.
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- User registration and authentication
- Posting and viewing messages
- Liking, commenting and resharing
- Ephemeral messages that disappear after a specified time
- Customizable user profiles
Cruddur leverages the following technologies to create a modern and scalable social media platform:
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DevOps and Cloud Services:
- Docker for containerization
- AWS ECS Fargate and ALB for scalable deployment
- AWS Cognito for user authentication
- AWS RDS for a managed relational database
- AWS DynamoDB for a managed NoSQL database
- CI/CD pipeline for automated deployments using AWS CodePipeline and GitHub actions
- IaC tools - Terraform, CloudFormation, SAM, CDK
- S3 for block storage
- Lambda for one-off tasks
- Bash scripts to automate DX
- VPC
- Route53
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Frontend:
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Headless UI
- React Hook Form and Zod (validation)
- React Context for state management
- SWR for client side data cache and mutation
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Backend:
- Flask
- Postgres
- boto3 to interact with AWS
- Logging and observability integrations
The project was created as part of the Free AWS Cloud Project Bootcamp organized by Exampro