SOCIAL-MEDIA

Connect, Share, Engage: Transform Your Social Experience

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Overview

This project is a distributed social media application project, with event driven architecture.

Core functionaries include

• 🚀 Distributed Architecture: Supports scalability and resilience.
• 📘 Event-Driven Design: Facilitates real-time interactions, enhancing user engagement and responsiveness.
• ☁️ Microservices Deployment with Kubernetes: Simplifies management and orchestration of services.
• 🛠️ Health Monitoring with Heartbeat: Ensures system reliability by continuously checking service health.
• 📊 Centralized Logging with Elasticsearch: observability and debugging capabilities, making it easier to track issues.
• 💬 Real-Time Messaging with WebSockets: Provides instant messaging features, crucial for social media applications.

Kubernetes

• The sm-k8s folder contains the objects code needed to deploy the microservices to kubernetes.
• The microservices are deployed to both Minikube and AWS EKS Cluster.

Server

• The server folder contains all the backend code for the application's services.
• The services can be started either individually from the terminal or via docker compose.

Volumes

• The volumes folder contains files that are used to run services for local development.
• Volumes README file

Installation

Build social-media from the source and install dependencies:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/LibenHailu/social-media

2. Navigate to social-media directory:

   cd social-media
   

Running Locally

• To start the services locally, you need to first start the required services inside the docker compose file.

• redis

  • docker compose up -d redis

• mongodb

  • docker compose up -d mongodb

• mysql

  • docker compose up -d mysql

• rabbitmq

  • docker compose up -d redis

• elasticsearch

  • docker compose up -d elasticsearch

• Volumes README file

Please start the microservices.

• follow service
• reaction service
• chat service
• post service
• users service
• auth service
• notification service
• Before you start the gateway service, make sure all other services are running without errors.

Running

Navigate to each service folder.

npm run dev

Running with docker

docker compose up -d follow reaction chat post users auth notification