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 fundamental 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.

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

Running the tests

Artillery

1. In stressTest directory, run

artillery run artillery.yml

Loader.io

1. Remove existing and add new loader.io file in public directory. Send requests to

movies/%{*:101-10000101}

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