Anonymous Users For users who are not registered, they can access the system in read-only mode. Most impotantly, they can search and filter the registered entities (personal and buisness) on the map and access their status. Once you know the userId of the target entity from the map, you can access the status directly with a URL and a query parameter. Logged-in Users Read More »

The application is part of the light-portal at the moment, and it inherits the design principles. Scalability The application is designed with millions of concurrent users in mind and scaling in demand. The front-end is a React single page application running in a browser that accesses the backend services through APIs. All services are designed as event sourcing and CQRS backed by Apache Kafka Streams. It is a typical read-heavy application, and we can scale the query side by increasing the Kafka partition and query side instances when more users are online. Read More »

Short Term The short term goal is to get people, businesses connected based on Geolocation. As a user, you can register yourself as a requester who needs some help from neighbors, or a volunteer who offers support to others in the neighborhood. For a local business, you can register as a vendor and keep publishing the status of your operation and connect to the people in your community. Midium Term In the medium term, we want to add more features like news publishing, blog posting, local community forums, etc. Read More »

It seems that the entire world is locked down, and nobody knows when the situation will return to normal. Even if we can reopen the country next month, we still need social distancing until the vaccine for COVID-19 is available. For the majority of people, they have to change their lifestyles; however, for some vulnerable people, it is about survival. I have heard people who had returned from another country forced to be self-isolated at home without food, and online order would be delivered two weeks later. Read More »