Go-Twitter

The main purpose of this project is to create a distributed, scalable system and try out as many technologies and frameworks as possible, which could be useful for work.

Why twitter?

Twitter is a relatively simple, read-heavy application that can be used for practice purposes.

Todo

• Caching
• DB optimizations
• Testing
• Rate limiting
• Cassandra instead of postgres for tweets
• Followers implementation
• Likes
• Replies
• Views count
• Simple timeline implementation
• Swagger
• Frontend
• Redis pub/sub
• Kafka for notifications
• Search (elasticsearch)
• Security (https, sql injections)
• Docker
• Docs
• Kubernetes
• MiniO
• Image/video processing
• Recommendation service (optional)
• ELK
• Prometheus/Grafana
• ClickHouse (don't know why yet)
• Hadoop/Flink (just to learn what it is)
• Overengineer things for a simple app

Notes

• 6.5k rps for create tweet handler (using postgres)