Microtwitter - Twitter Made With Microservices

Fully functional web application written in Java, JavaScript, and Python to facilitate all the features associated with Twitter, containerized with docker and orchestrated with Kubernetes

This project aims to mimic all the features of Twitter such as following, liking, commenting, retweeting, posting, and so much more. This app was built using microservices architecture, and as such consists of a variety of different services to facilitate each individual feature. These services include:

• Retweet-Service
• Social-Service
• User-Service
• Search-Service
• Tweet-Service

Quickstart

Ensure that you have the following installed:

• Minikube
• PostgreSQL
• Git

1. Clone the reposistory

git clone https://github.com/WhyNaught/MicroTwitter.git
cd microtweets 

2. Create a new PSQL database

psql -U postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE microtweets;"

3. Initialize your new database

psql -U your_username -d your_database -f init.sql

4. Deploy app using minikube

cd k8s 
kubectl apply -f ./deployments/*
kubectl apply -f ./services/*

5. Check if pods have started

kubectl get pods 

6. Access frontend with your browser