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README.md

Technical Challenge Repo link

https://code.ndumas.com/ndumas/senior-platform-enginner-927-technical-challenge/

Architecture diagrams are included in my repository above.

Justifications

  • Athena
    • Less up-front configuration involved.
    • AWS wants to lock you into their ecosystem so it'll be cheaper.
    • In the future, we can switch from CSV to JSON or Parquet or mix and match without any overhead like rewriting the /load endpoints to use a different SQL flavor or parsing library.
  • API Gateway
    • Rate limiting and caching built-in
    • Abstracts interfacing with the API away from raw lambda invocation URLs
    • Can be mapped to a domain

Challenge Deliverables

  • Architecture diagram
    • saved as a PNG
  • Explain decisions and trade-offs
    • Document in README.md
  • Terraform repo scaffolding out the service

Air Traffic Metrics

  • Ingest raw data into S3
    • S3 Bucket
      • Bucket best practices
        • Buckets aren't public
        • Only load lambda can add objects
        • Only Athena can read objects
        • ????
  • Database of my choice
    • Athena?
      • Less up-front configuration involved. I hope.
      • AWS wants to lock you into their ecosystem so it'll be cheaper.
      • In the future, we can switch from CSV to JSON or Parquet or mix and match without any overhead.
    • Aurora (Postgresql)
    • Aurora (Mysql)
  • API to interact with the data
    • API Gateway
      • Policy that grants it lambda invocation rights
    • /load endpoint
    • /metrics endpoint
      • Python lambda that returns the following:
        • row_count: number of rows in table for full data set
        • last_transponder_seen_at: maximum value for lastseen
        • most_popular_destination: most seen value for destination
        • count_of_unique_transponders: unique count of the icao24 field
      • Execution role that grants it access to athena database
  • Frontend to display the data
    • Python lambda that renders an HTML page that displays above metrics