A social media application designed to enhance tourism by connecting travelers with local businesses. It provides a platform where users can share their travel experiences, discover local attractions, and interact with businesses, promoting tourism and local economies.
FoodStories is built with a scalable and modular architecture, leveraging industry-best practices to ensure performance, maintainability, and seamless user experience.
- Microservices Architecture for modularity and scalability.
- Monorepo structure managed with Nx for streamlined development.
- Clean Architecture and Clean Code principles to ensure maintainability and readability.
- Kafka for event-driven, asynchronous communication.
- gRPC for high-performance synchronous communication between microservices.
- Neo4j as a graph database to maintain and optimize social connections and recommendations.
- MongoDB as a NoSQL database for efficient content storage.
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for container orchestration and scalable deployments.
- Google Cloud Storage for secure and efficient media storage.
- Firebase for authentication.
- Google Cloud Functions for efficient media compression and serverless operations.
- Frontend: Angular (TypeScript) for a dynamic and responsive user interface.
- Backend: NestJS (TypeScript) for scalable and maintainable backend services.
- Database: MongoDB (NoSQL) and Neo4j (Graph Database).
- Event & Message Queue: Apache Kafka.
- Communication: gRPC for optimized service-to-service communication.
- Infrastructure Management: Docker, Kubernetes, and GKE.
FoodStories is designed with a developer-friendly ecosystem, emphasizing scalability, modularity, and high availability, making it an ideal platform for fostering digital tourism experiences.