Dynamodb-geosearch Proof of Concept

Description

This proof of concept was built to show the ability to do geosearching in AWS DynamoDB. It uses open source software to geocode and store/read/update geopoints in dynamo. For a detailed breakdown of this repository, refer to the article on Medium.

AWS Resources

The CloudFormation script (template.yaml) will deploy a handful of serverless resources to your AWS account:

1 x Public API (API Gateway)
1 x NoSQL Table (DynamoDB)
4 x CRUD Functions (Lambda)
4 x Roles with Policies (IAM)

Prerequisites

In order to properly run and deploy this app, you must perform the following

Setup an AWS account
Install the AWS CLI
Configure the AWS CLI to use your account
Setup an S3 bucket
Sign up for a free Geocodio api key
Install Git

Setup

Clone the repository to your local machine
In the template.yaml file, change REPLACE_ME with your Geocodio api key
In the root package.json, change REPLACE_ME with the name of your S3 bucket

Deployment

You are able to deploy the solution any way you'd like, but included in the root package.json is a script that will automatically build, package, and deploy the solution to AWS for you. Just run the following command to deploy