Tails Assignment

How to run with docker

docker-compose up --build

This will automatically setup the docker container and run load_stores management command to save stores from stores.json file and fetches latitude and longitude info for all stores from Postcode.io

How to run test in docker container

docker-compose run app python manage.py test

How to run locally on Mac or Linux

- Install virtualenv
pip install virtualenv
- Create virtualenv
virtualenv tails-env
- Activate virtualenv
source tails-env/bin/activate
- Install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run migrations
python manage.py migrate
- Load stores
python manage.py load_stores
- Run development server
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Check store list using django rest framework template

http://localhost:8000/stores/

Questions

Tell us what test you completed (backend or full-stack)

• Backend

Tell us what you'd have changed if you'd have had more time?

• I'd have done full stack task as well.
• I was planning to use stores api endpoint for both backend and full stack task. More info can be found on docstring.
• If I had time to do frontend task, I'd have done it using Vuejs. Though, the right decision would be using pure js, html, css for this lightweight task.
• Use flask instead of Django
• Make it production ready
• Load stores in parallel
• More tests
• More logging
• More detail documentation
• More detailed README.md

What bits did you find the toughest? What bit are you most proud of? In both cases, why?

• Had to do some assumptions

• Login not required
• There is only one store in a postcode.
• Project will be run in a machine that has access to the internet

What's one thing we could do to improve this test?

• Measuring distance between two points requires geo knowledge which is not much related with development skills, it's hard to understand if it produces right result