openPIM

openPIM is a deployed API and UI for a product information management (PIM) hub. It is an open and free API, designed and developed to share rich product information and serve as a central PIM hub. For more information, visit https://openpim.io/.

Highlights:

• MERN stack: Developed using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJS) for its primary API service.
• Architecture: Initially designed as a monolithic application with gradual migration to a micro-service architecture for file processing tasks.
• Communication: Utilizes REST endpoints for file communication and a GraphQL endpoint for other types of communication.
• Containerization: Docker images are created to streamline server initialization and integrate seamlessly into the system's cluster, ensuring efficiency and scalability.
• CI/CD: Deployed using a continuous integration pipeline through GitLab.
• Kubernetes: Deployed in Kubernetes clusters, implementing Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Cluster Autoscalers for a hands-off scalable solution.
• Helm: Uses Helm for Kubernetes package management, ensuring easy updates and rollbacks of deployments.
• Geo-Location Replicas: Designed to scale as a Geo-Location service to tackle latency, including cluster replicas and MongoDB replica sets.
• Servers: The network utilizes AWS clusters, with an additional on-site cluster built from Raspberry Pi 5 devices.