swe_t.py

celebrapsheets tech overview

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1. swe_t.py Celebrity Rap Sheets
2. Meet the Team: Ian Daszkowski • Front End • Back End Routing • Website Layout • Design • 91 Commits • 17 Issues Parker Timmins • Model Design • API Implementation • Testing • Backend • 85 Commits • 21 Issues Jacob Brouwer • VM Management • Data Aggregation • Frontend • Model Design • Issues Management • 96 Commits • 31 Issues Parker Berg • API Design • APIary Documentation • Technical Report • Project Management • 34 Commits • 22 Issues
3. What we’re all about: • Celebrities tend to get in trouble • Aggregate information regarding crimes and legal charges • Use cases: ◦ Fun! ◦ Satisfy curiosity ◦ Schadenfreude?
4. Demo Celebrity Rap Sheets
5. Stack Walkthrough - Data • All data was curated manually from blogspam/gossip websites. • We copied news reports and data directly into our database initializer script • This was not completed until halfway through project 2
6. Stack - Database Postgres • Two databases ◦ One for prod ◦ One for tests • Declared in sqlalchemy models • Relations on the models implicitly join for us
7. UML
8. Stack - API Barebones • Returns summaries for group calls • Returns full data for individual requests • Limited compared to models
9. Stack - Frontend Jinja templates (and we do not question that decision) • 16 lines of CSS • 56 lines of Javascript (all on one page) • Bootstrap! • Custom filters!
10. Stack - Backend • Nginx → uWSGI • Separate server for tests • Managed entirely by server.sh • Multi-process, multi-thread
11. Stack - Search SQLAlchemy-Searchable • Regex term highlighting • Searchable is smarter than us • Segmented by pillar
12. SWEtart Critique What did they do well? • Client-side webapp • Lots of data • Looks great What did we learn? • AngularJS is pretty nifty
13. SWEtart Critique What can they do better / What puzzles us? • API documentation ◦ Documentation does not mention the /api/ prefix • Segment/reduce the data for a single character
14. Self Critique What did we do well? • Back end design • Responsive Website What did we learn? • Bootstrap is amazing! • Flask templates are powerful. • Server management. • Don’t over-engineer
15. Self Critique What can we do better? • Front end design • More data • Spelling What puzzled us? • When and where to use JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks • SQLAlchemy-Searchable had some compatibility issues with our configuration. • Optimal testing architecture