Backend for a Google Docs/Notion/Dropbox Paper clone.
Writr uses Redis as an in-memory cache for fast/immediate document recovery.
Install Redis (on mac) with brew install redis.
We can run the Writr service (mostly) locally for development purposes.
(I have not set up a local DynamoDB workflow, so all DB connections will connect to the production database).
- Start Redis by running
redis-server - Start the service by running
go run app/websockets.go
Set necessary environment variables and run ./deploy.sh to build a docker image and deploy
the image to Google Cloud run.
Things to fix/update:
- Add env variables instead of hard coding values (e.g. port numbers)
- Improve error handling (see "Go's Error Handling Is a Form of Storytelling")
- Use Enums for categorical values (e.g. table names)
- Containerize and deploy (Docker + Docker compose)
- Scaling (use a message queue behind load-balanced servers)
- Convert these to Github tickets/issues