A project for NETS 2120, Scalable and Cloud Computing

Tech Stack:

-React and Javascript Frontend hosted on Amazon EC2
-Express Backend hosted on Amazon EC2
-MySQL Database hosted on Amazon RDS
-ChromaDB for image embedding matching also hosted on Amazon EC2
-Kafka for streaming of posts into and out of web application
-Apache Spark for Adsorption ranking of users and posts, ran on Apache Livvy on an Amazon EMR cluster
-ChatGPT for Natural Language search over all movies, actors, etc.

-User Signup and Login with salted and hashed passwords
-Profile Page with Actor matches and hashtags
-Chatbot with RAG to database
-Main feed with Adsorption logic and posts that have comment threads and like/comment features
-Kafka streaming from Federated Posts and Bluesky into our feed/ranking, then write to Federated Posts with post creation feature
-Message feature with group chat functionality
-Friend Recommendations and ability to add/remove friends as well as chat them