CPSC 449 - Fall 2023 - Project 3 - Polyglot Persistence and Functional Partitioning

Project members:

1. Set working directory as this project's directory

2. Create and enter virtual environment

   python3.10 -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate

3. Install requirements

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Configure Redis CLI

   You will need to have Redis CLI installed and running on the system at port 6379. You can verify this by running the following command:

   redis-cli ping

   Otherwise install redis:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install --yes redis

5. Configure AWS CLI

   You will need to follow the instructions on the Long-term credentials tab of Configuring using AWS CLI commands to configure dummy credentials for DynamoDB local.

6. Start API

   foreman start --formation users-primary=1,users-secondary=1,users-tertiary=1,enrollment=3,krakend=1,amazon-dynamodb-local=1

7. Initialize databases

   If databases haven't been initialized yet (ie. this is the first run), run the following after running one of the commands above, which activates the LiteFS replication service:

   ./bin/init.sh

   You may also wish to run this in development to reset the database, especially if a schema has been changed.