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InstaLite
Final Project for NETS 2120, Scalable and Cloud Computing
2025Full Stack Application
Social media platform for Penn students to connect and share experiences
Tech Stack
ReactJavaScriptNode.jsExpressMySQLChromaDBKafkaApache SparkAWS
Project Description
- For my final project in NETS 2120, I worked in a team with two others to develop a social media platform for Penn students.
- We used React and JavaScript for the frontend, Node.JS and Express for the backend, and MySQL for our database.
- We hosted our frontend and backend on Amazon EC2 nodes, and used Amazon RDS for our MySQL database.
- Apache Spark was used for user feed generation, ChromaDB for image embedding and similarity search, and Kafka for streaming from other social media sites.
- Spark and ChromaDB were hosted on the cloud as well, on an Amazon EMR cluster and an Amazon EC2 node respectively.
Key Features
- User Signup and Login with salted and hashed passwords
- Profile Page with Actor matches and hashtags
- Main feed with Adsorption logic and posts that have comment threads and like/comment features
- Kafka streaming from Federated Posts and Bluesky topics into our feed
- Writing into Federated Posts topic with post creation feature
- Friend recommendations and ability to add/delete friends
- Messaging system with groupchatting and direct messaging
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