A Microblogging As A Service (MAAS) platform built on a webscale microservice-based backend.
MAAS, or Microblogging As A Service, is the hottest new trend in the
blogosphere! Want to run your own blog, but freaked out about all those
Wordpress vulnerabilities? Like to share your thoughts, but too lazy busy
too write a full-length blogpost? Well have we got the solution for you!
Skitter's innovative MAAS platform allows you to share your thoughts will all of your (RIT account-holding) friends and followers! Just tap together a quick 140-character response, forget any geopolitical consequences that may arise from what you just composed, and hit that "skit" button!
Monetization is not a priority right now. Our mission statement involves pushing out an MVP in two months and then getting bought out by one of the Big Names in tech. It worked for so many other startups, so why not us?
We promise not to collect any data on you to sell to advertisers. Probably. Maybe. Depends on how much money we blow on our launch party.
We at Skitter believe that diversity is a quality that should be found at the most core of every online platform. Most applications use one or two - three if you're lucky - different application frameworks. Not us. Here at Skitter, we take pride in our massively diversified microservice infrastructure. We've got 'em all - Flask, Node.js, Spring, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails, and everyone's favorite - PHP. Our engineers may disagree with this, but we strongly believe that microservice diversity with Make Applications Great Again.
To set up the environment locally, run:
pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo docker-compose up
This will allow you to run Locust tests across the entire infrastructure. Details about testing individual microservices can be found in the README files for those microservices, if applicable.
The Skitter API documentation can be found under "documentation/REFERENCE.md" - please note that new entries will be added as new functionality is designed/implemented.