Twitter (Clone)

Personal project, Twitter clone that is based on a microservices architecture

System Design

High level design and architecture of the system.

• Requirements
• Back of the envelope estimation
• Technical stack
• High-level design
• Data model design
• API design (External communication)
• Inter-service communication
• Detailed design

Testing methodologies

• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• BDD (Behavior-Driven Development)

Deployment Strategy

• Cloud
• Containerization
• Orchestration
• Build CI/CD pipeline

Monitoring and Logging

• Monitoring
• Logging

Considerations

There are several considerations to ensure that the system in a microservices architecture is robust, scalable, and maintainable.

• Design and Decoupling
• Data Management
• Communication
• Performance and Scalability
• Security
• Reliability and Resilience
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks

Development Guidelines

• Tools and Environment
• Development Process
• Coding Convention
• Testing Convention
• Documentation
• Performance and Optimization
• Code Reviews and Feedback
• Version Control Rules

References

• System Design Interview - An Insider’s Guide
• Karan Pratap Singh - System Design (2022)
• Microservices Logging, A Practical Guide to Logging in Microservices
• Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline - SonarQube, Docker, GitHub Webhooks on AWS
• DevOps Project 1 - CI/CD with Git Jenkins Ansible Kubernetes
• SonarQube Integration with Jenkins
• Building Web APIs with gRPC - The Complete Guide
• Testing Spring Boot App with JUnit, Mockito & Testcontainers
• Full-Stack Java Development with Spring Boot 3 & React