Product Updates

[Emmanuel Kala]

Hey everyone,

It's been a while since an update on the project went out on here. The last couple of weeks have been intense; stitching together the UI and all the bolts and nuts for the app.

Architecture

The web application has been built on top the API - https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/SwiftRiver+REST+API

As for the technical stack, it's no longer one application running off pure LAMP stack. There are new additions:

• Java - for the API and some background applications. These are written on top of the Spring framework
• Python - for the background applications that fetch data
• Apache Solr - For full text search and geo queries
• RabbitMQ - For messaging

Codebase

At the moment, each of the application's components resides in its own repository. The main repositories are:

• Web client - https://github.com/ushahidi/SwiftRiver
• API - https://github.com/ushahidi/SwiftRiver-API
• Supporting & background applications
• Content fetchers & metadata extractors- https://github.com/ushahidi/SwiftRive-Core
• API client for Java - https://github.com/ushahdii/swiftriver-api-java
• Drops Processing - https://github.com/ushahidi/swiftriver-core-dropqueue-processor
• Rules Engine - https://github.com/ushahidi/swiftriver-core-rules-processor

I've started putting up the technical docs on the wiki at https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/SwiftRiver+Developer+Guide.

NOTE: The docs for the previous iteration (version 1) have been archived at: https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/SwiftRiver+v1.0

Thanks,

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Emmanuel Kala
http://www.ushahidi.com
Cell: +254 721 247 824

Skype: emmanuel.kala
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