Python, Django REST Framework, MySQL, HBase, Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Amazon S3/EC2, Thrift,
This project is to design, develop, and implement Restful APIs to operate Twitter-like backend service as close to real-world development as possible based on Django REST Framework. For performance optimization, structured and unstructured databases are both implemented in this project according to the nature of the tables.
• Built push model to fanout news feeds
• Leveraged Redis and Memcached to reduce DB queries for tables which has lot reads and lot writes
• Used Key-value store HBase to split DB queries for tables which has less reads and lot writes
• Utilized denormalization to store the number of comments & likes to reduce DB queries
• Adapted Message Queue to deliver asynchronized tasks to reduce response time
• The whole project resulted in 10000 lines of code changes, cost over 3 months
- User Authentification: Allow users to log in or sign up with emails
- Allow users to follow, unfollow other users
- Allow users to view, comment, and like others' posts, also users can cancel their comments and likes on the posts
- Allow users to create, delete, update posts and view the count of likes and comments of their posts
- Send out newfeeds to followers
- Display tweets in newfeeds in endless pagination format
User and Profile
GET /api/users/ Only admin users have the access permission.
POST /api/accounts/signup/ It also creates user profile.
POST /api/accounts/login/
POST /api/accounts/logout/
GET /api/accounts/login_status/
PUT /api/profiles/:profile_id Updates nickname and/or avatar.
Tweet
GET /api/tweets/?user_id=xxx
POST /api/tweets/
GET /api/tweets/:id
Friendship
POST /api/friendships/:user_id/follow/
POST /api/friendships/:user_id/unfollow/
GET /api/friendships/:user_id/followings/
GET /api/friendships/:user_id/followers/
Newsfeed
GET /api/newsfeeds/
Endless Pagination
Comment
POST /api/comments/
PUT /api/comments/:id
DELETE /api/comments/:id
GET /api/comments/?tweet_id=xxx
Like
POST /api/likes/
POST /api/likes/cancel/
Notification
GET /api/notifications/
GET /api/notifications/unread-count/
POST /api/notifications/mark-all-as-read/
PUT /api/notifications/:notification_id
Django Rest Framework alike ORM to access hbase.
Implemented functions: Deine models and fields similar to DRF. Save, create, filter operations similar to Django ORM.
Function: GrayRelease, Whitelisting, Reverse Commit
