Projects

Cloud Native NodeJS Backend Application (January 2020)

Keywords

micro-service, backend, API, containerization

Technologies

TypeScript, NodeJS, Express, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

Description

1. This backend application will be 2 micro-services both built using TypeScript/JavaScript running on NodeJS with Express.

2. Data persistence will be handled by 3 separate technologies: Redis, MySQL, and MongoDB

3. The API standard will be GraphQL (and possibly Apollo) and may include REST endpoints as well.

4. Docker containers will hold the databases as well as the individual micro-service applications.

5. The containers will be orchestrated by Kubernetes.