rreubenreyes / hearth

online community building

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Open rreubenreyes opened 4 years ago

rreubenreyes commented 4 years ago

mvp:

backend:
- chat servers: Go
- api: probably a node service, possible to approximate via AWS API Gateway for now
db:
- ~preferrably NoSQL probably DynamoDB but open to Postgres or something~
- ok use a relational db here, Postgres/Aurora

out of scope:

events: ain't nobody got time for that right now so probably SQS for the time being but eventually MSK
frontend:
- framework: who knows probably React
- style: Sass

rreubenreyes commented 4 years ago

second thought, a significant portion of the data model is relational and will require nested joins (join on messages to form a friend-specific chatroom, forum searches, etc), Postgres/Aurora is probably a better choice for db.

the downside may be higher latency on everything, but this is only a problem at scale... an intermediate events layer feeding DynamoDB or a NoSQL database, then ETL to a relational store might help here but I don't have to or want to consider that for now.