banerjee-ronitb / newsfeed-service

User Newsfeed Microservice for a Social N/w App Demonstration.

Social Networking App Demonstration

Description

This is an effort to demonstrate a social networking application that has users, followers, posts and feeds. This repository is built to handle user follower and following related functionalities.

• For user auth, please refer to Auth Service
• For user followers, please refer to Graph Service
• For user posts, please refer to Post Service

Newsfeed Microservice

This service showcases Spring Boot integration with Apache Cassandra database and Apache Kafka.

• User should send access token in Authorization header to access the APIs
• Newsfeed service consumes an event on every post creation
• FeedGenerator service updates the feeds of followers/friends.
• It queries the followers by email id, which is part of event payload.
• Interservice communication is authenticated and authorized with OKTA Client Credentials Flow

Getting Started

Follow the steps below:

🖐 Requirements

• Java 11
• Maven 3.6.x
• OKTA developer account

⏳ Installation

This application uses maven to build. Refer to Installing Maven to install maven.

Step 1: mvn clean install

Step 2: mvn spring-boot:run

Roadmap

Add an additional repository to showcase deployment using Kuberenetes.