Designing Tweet Service
Tweet Service is responsible for handling the creation, retrieval, and deletion of tweets. It plays a crucial role in the Twitter-like service by managing the core functionality related to tweets. Let’s explore the low-level design of Tweet Service. Figure 11.3 shows the architecture of Tweet Service where we have the appropriate requests flow in from the load balancer, through the API gateway to Tweet Service, which interacts with the Tweet Database table, the object store, and the message queue to power Timeline Service and Search Service (discussed in the next sections).
Figure 11.3: High-level architecture of Tweet Service
Each service will expose API endpoints that can be used to communicate with it. Here are the API endpoints for Tweet Service:
POST /tweets– create a new tweet:Request body: Tweet content, user ID, and optional media attachmentResponse: Created tweet object with assigned tweet ID and...
