10-Million-Dog-Goggles/search-bar-service

REI Search Bar - System Design Capstone

This project takes a pre-existing search bar microservice and rebuilds the back-end to achieve these goals:

• Expand the database size from 100 entries to 10M entries
• Achieve query time < 50 ms for all database queries used by the service API, targeting last 10% of database entries
• Stress test service in development (own laptop) to achieve ~1K RPS with < 1% error rate
• Scale back-end to improve throughput on EC2 T2.micro instance(s) to 100 RPS (min) w/ < 1% error rate (streeeeeeetch goal: 10K RPS w/ < 1% error rate)

Related Projects

• https://github.com/10-Million-Dog-Goggles/product-view-service
• https://github.com/10-Million-Dog-Goggles/q-and-a-service

Table of Contents

1. Usage
2. Requirements
3. Development

Usage

Some usage instructions

Requirements

An nvmrc file is included if using nvm.

• Node 6.13.0

Development

See dev journal.

Installing Dependencies

From within the root directory:

npm install -g webpack
npm install