Stroer challenge

Prerequisites

• docker
• docker-compose

How to set up and run

# Spin up the services
docker-compose up --build

# Create django-admin user
docker-compose run backendserver python manage.py createsuperuser

# You can access django admin dashboard at http://localhost:8000/admin

# Import posts and comments from external API
docker-compose run backendserver python manage.py bootstrap_blog 

# Then you can add/modify record, using django-admin dashboard

# Synchronizes records in external API, according to local DB
docker-compose run backendserver python manage.py synchronize

# Finally to remove services (and related volumes)
docker-compose down -v

You can also visit:

• API-docs on http://localhost:8000/api/swagger

Libraries that I used:

• gunicorn: for running production ready web server
• whitenoise: for serving staticfiles as an easy solution
• psycopg2-binary: to handle communication via postgres
• aiohttp: to handle sending multiple http requests concurrently
• requests: to send blocking http requests