LikeTrackingSystem - ASP.NET Core 5.0 Server

A like tracking system for Article likes.

Description

Tracks likes for articles defined using a UUID for unique identification. The backend system is composed of three parts: a API gateway, a Tracker service for which users liked articles and a Counter service to track the number of likes for each article.

The archictecure can be seen through the diagrams: Get likes and New like both created using the diagrams found in Architecture.

Architecture summary

The components of the system are all defined using a simple microservice architecture.

• To ensure CQRS each component is defined has its own database.
• The components communicate with each other using a message broker.
• Likes are tracked using a simple NoSQL database.
• Like counts are tracked using a distributed cache and a simple NoSQL database to avoid duplicate event counting.

This system ensures scalability, through the use of microservices and async communication (via message brokers).

Run

Linux/OS X:

sh build.sh

Windows:

build.bat

TODO

Because of time restraints, the project is not fully production ready. The following features are missing:

• Article Like tracking persistence
• Count tracking persistence
• Events counted persistence
• Remove like for user
• Message broker integration (using Message board interface)
• Like frontend component (possibly a simple button with a label for counts)