Simple Social Timeline: Async API Backend
A modern, decoupled social media backend engineered with FastAPI and Python, featuring asynchronous request processing, JWT security, and offloaded cloud media pipelines.
Objective & Problem
Architect a decoupled, high-performance social media backend capable of handling secure authentication, session management, and media uploads without blocking worker threads. Offload heavy media payloads to cloud CDN storage while preserving fast relational timeline queries.
Stack & Architecture
System Design & Components
Non-blocking REST endpoints utilizing Python's async/await concurrency primitives to handle feed queries and timeline operations.
Offloaded multi-part media ingestion directly to cloud CDN infrastructure to keep the database lightweight.
Cryptographic token issuance, password hashing, and dependency injection guards on protected action routes.
End-to-end integration tests and an interactive client harness to validate schema stability across all CRUD endpoints.