MainCard-Component

This is a scaled microservice for an open-source video player and Tomatometer rating component for the recreation of the Rotten Tomatoes website.

Motivation

This project was developed to gain a fundemental understanding of microservice system design.

Prerequisites

At least 5 Amazon EC2 instances with static ip addresses is preferred for the deployment of this service. 1 for the load balancer, 1 for the database server, and 3 or more for microservice instances.

Installing

Running the tests

Screenshots

Include logo/demo screenshot etc.

Deployment

Docker

To start load balancer

1. Use DockerFile to build image. In Nginx directory, run

docker build -t loadbalancer .

2. To create containers with port forwarding and detached-mode, run

docker run -p 80:80 -d loadbalancer

To start web service

1. Use docker-compose.yml to build the containers for the project. Within the MainCard-Component directory, run

docker-compose up

to run in detached-mode, run

docker-compose up -d

To start database

Manually

Within MainCard-Component directory:

   npm install
   npm start

Built with

Tech/frameworks used

• React
• NodeJs/Express
• PostgreSQL

Features

• NGINX
• Redis
• Docker
• AWS EC2 (Optional)

Testing

• Artillery
• Loader.io

Authors

Moe Mosaad

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Nick Bisignano (a good friend)
• Inspiration - the quest to build the best systems possible

MIT © Moe Mosaad