Instagram Clone

Welcome to the Instagram Clone project, which aims to replicate the core functionalities of the popular social media platform, Instagram, while demonstrating :

How to build and deploy fault tolerant distributed systems.

Tech Stack

• Rust to write all the backend microservices (except the backend gateway microservice which is written in GoLang).

• Postgres as the primary database.

• Meilisearch for implementing full text search feature.

• Redpanda (a Kafka alternative) as the message broker | Debezium for implementing CDC (Change Data Capture).

• Vector for log ingestion | SigLens for centralized log, metric and trace collection.

• Docker with Docker Compose to run everything in a development environment.

Future Plans

• Write tests for the backend.

  A blog by SemaphoreCI on Testing Strategies For Microservices - https://semaphoreci.com/blog/test-microservices

Getting involved

If you encounter any bugs, have feature requests, or just want to discuss about the project, please open an issue.

References

• Microservices Patterns book by Chris Richardson
• Jordan has no life's Youtube video on how to design a social media platform like Instagram
• The Rust Book
• Crust of Rust Youtube playlist by Jon Gjengset
• Lazy Static Pattern in Rust
• Youtube channels - Mario Carrion | Viktor Farcic
• Vivek Singh's Youtube playlist on how to write a custom Kubernetes controller
• Heiko's Blogs on how to instrument Rust codebase for Distrbuted Tracing