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GraphQL + Join Monster + ATP backend based on Nodejs for the Social network built for SE-Symposium, 2019. Change date: 27/12/2019

Overall Structure of Deployment

                                                        +-----------------+
                                                        |                 |
                                                        | OCI-Object Storage
                                                        |                 |
                                                        +-----------------+

                  +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
                  |                                                                         |
                  |                                                                         |
                  |                                                                         |
                  |                                                                         |
                  |   Public - Subnet    Private- Subnet                                    |
+---------------+ |                                                                         |
| OCI-DNS       | | +---------------+    +---------------+  +------------+ +---------------+|
|---------------| | | OCI - Load Bal.    |OCI- Kubernetes|  |OCI- SG     | |OCI- ATP       ||
|               | | |---------------|    |---------------|  |------------| |---------------||
|               | | |               |    | Managed       |  |Service     | |Autonomous     ||
|  Managed      +---> Managed       +----> Multi-Master  +-->Gateway     +->Scalable       ||
|  Scalable     | | | HA            |    | Integrated    |  |            | |Auto Patching  ||
|  Distributed  | | | Scalable      |    | Secure        |  |Private Access|Auto Perf. Opt ||
|               | | |               |    | Distributed   |  |            | |               ||
+---------------+ | +---------------+    +---------------+  +------------+ +---------------+|
                  |                                                                         |
                  |                                                                         |
                  |                                         OCI- Virtual Cloud Network      |
                  +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

About the Data Model

  1. Users
  2. Posts
  3. Likes
  4. Comments
  5. Events
  6. Quizzes

An Example of viewing a subset of this model

                               +-----------------+
                               | Likes Table     |
                               |-----------------|
                       +-------> likeID          |
                       |       | postID          |
                       |       +-----------------+
       +---------------+       +------------------+
       |   Users table |       | Posts Table      |         + JSON Columns are Documents
       |---------------|       |------------------|
       | UserID        |       |  PostID          |           Documents are Standalone
       | UserName      |       |  UserID          |
       | UserMetadata(JSON)    |  PostMetadata(JSON)          Document Content Queryable
       | Hash          +------>|  isDeleted       |
       | CreatedAt     |       |  CreatedAt       |           SQL Dot Notation
       | ModifiedAt    |       |  ModifiedAt      |
       | numLogins     |       |                  |           Tables have Relationships
       |               |       |                  |
       +---------------+       +------------------+           Typical Social Media Graph
                       |
                       |       +------------------+           Not Suitable for REST
                       |       | Comments Table   |
                       |       |------------------|           View Generation has to be flexible
                       |       |  CommentID       |
                       +------->  PostID          |
                               |  UserID          |
                               |  CommentMetadata(JSON)
                               |  isDeleted       |
                               |  createdAt       |
                               +------------------+

About Components

Role of GraphQL

  • Single Endpoint to flexibly consume all the elements of the data model, without iterating through individual URLs , with pagination Support.

                                     +----------------------------------------------+
                                     |                           Kubernetes Pod     |
                                     |                                              |
                                     |                                              |
                                     |                           +-----------+      |
                                     |                     +-----+           |      |
                       +--+---+      |                     |     | User      |      |
                       |      |      |                     |     +-----------+      |
                       |  L   |      |  +------------------+                        |
                       |  O   |      |  | GraphQL-EndPoint |     +-----------+      |
                       |  A   |      |  |------------------|     |           |      |
                       |  D   |      |  | Single URL       +-----+ Post      |      |
           End         |      |      |  | Resolves to      |     +-----------+      |
           Users------>|  B   +------>  | -> user          +                        |
                       |  A   |      |  | -> Comment       |     +-----------+      |
                       |  L   |      |  | -> Post          +-----+ Comment   |      |
                       |  A   |      |  | -> Event Etc.    |     |           |      |
                       |  N   |      |  |                  +     +-----------+      |
                       |  C   |      |  +------------------|                        |
                       |  E   |      |                     |     +-----------+      |
                       +--R---+      |                     +-----+           |      |
                                     |                           |  Like     |      |
                                     |                           +-----------+      |
                                     |                                              |
                                     +----------------------------------------------+
    

Role of Join Monster

  • Convert the GraphQL Query Dynamically to a SQL Query as and when the front end changes.

                 +------------------------+           +-------------------------+
                 |Complex UI View Gen.    |           |Join - Monster           |
                 |------------------------|           |-------------------------|
                 |                        |           |                         |
                 | Show me all the posts  |           | Map all entities involved
                 |                        |           |                         |
                 | Show me all comments   |           | Dynamically generate    |
                 |                        |           |                         |
                 | I want first name and  |           | a Single SQL Query for  |
                 |                        |           |                         |
                 | last name of people who+-----------|>every incoming request  |
                 |                        |           |                         |
                 | posted                 |           |                         |
                 |                        |           | Cache when possible     |
                 | Only the first name of |           |                         |
                 |                        |           | Paginate for lazy loading
                 | people who commented   |           |                         |
                 |                        |           |                         |
                 | I want number of comments          |                         |
                 |                        |           |                         |
                 | per post as well       |           |                         |
                 +------------------------+           +-------------------------+
    

Role of ATP

  • Act as a highly scalable Social Network Persistence layer with autoscaling enabled, supporting both structured and unstructured data.

For Feature Requests

  • Use the Feature Request Template

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