This repository only contains backend. Frontend with web screenshots is here: https://github.com/kexu935/tacks-web
- Built a social network website for users to post events (geolocation, image, description) using ReactJs
- Designed an interactive user interfaces using ReactJS libraries (antd, react-google-map, react-grid-gallery, react-router, etc.)
- Developed backend web service in Go and deployed to Google Cloud (GAE flex) for better scaling
- Employed ElasticSearch (deployed on GCE) to provide geolocation-based search functions such that users can search nearby posts within a distance
- Utilized BigQuery to analyze posts dumped from BigTable by using Cloud Dataflow to understand system work load, user distribution, etc.
- Improved the keyword-based spam detection by aggregating the data at the post level and user level
- Implemented authentication using OAuth 2.0 and utilized Redis to improve cache performance