Scalable Social Media Backend

This application was part of the SENG 468 Spring offering, where the goal was to design a scalable and fault-tolerant social media platform that enables users to create and share posts. The platform needed to handle a large number of concurrent users and support real-time notifications and messaging. To achieve this, a combination of MongoDB, Redis, Nginx Load Balancer, and redis queuing were utilized. The solution included components such as a MongoDB database for storing user, post, comment, and notification information, a Redis cache for improving performance, an Nginx Load Balancer for distributing requests and enhancing availability, and a messaging system using Redis for real-time notifications and user messaging. The project was containerized using Docker, with a provided Docker Compose file for easy setup and deployment. Additionally, scripts were developed to populate the database with sample data for testing, and perform basic CRUD operations on the database.