Project Overview

BiteReview is a microservice-based, cloud-deployed web application that allows Columbia University students to review the dishes served at Columbia's dining halls. Users are able to search for existing dishes, which contain a description of the dish, an average rating, and individual reviews and images left by other users. Users are also able to create reviews for an existing dish and/or create a new dish, with the option of leaving a rating, writing comments, and attaching an image of the dish.

Our three atomic microservices ((1) dish management service, (2) review and rating service, and (3) image management service) and one composite service are all RESTful APIs built in Flask (Python), connected to their own MySQL database inside of an Amazon RDS instance, and deployed to Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, or Google Compute Engine. We built our frontend application in React.js and Next.js, with Mantine as our component library, and we deployed the frontend to an Amazon S3 bucket. We used Google OAuth 2.0 for authentication, Amazon API Gateway for request routing, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and Docker for containerization. This project was my group's final project for Professor Donald Ferguson's Cloud Computing (COMS W4153) course at Columbia University.