InstaLite is a full-featured social media platform inspired by Instagram, featuring user profiles, image-based search, post feeds, nested comments, real-time chat, and profile discovery. The backend is built and tested with Node.js, powered by RESTful APIs that handle user interactions and content management. Data is managed through a scalable schema on AWS RDS (MySQL) and S3, with auxiliary tables and optimized queries ensuring consistency and efficient access across the application. Additionally, InstaLite relied on the vector database ChromaDB and image embeddings to support similarity queries and actors that look similar to the user profile picture.
InstaLite is a full-featured social media platform inspired by Instagram, featuring user profiles, image-based search, post feeds, nested comments, real-time chat, and profile discovery. The backend is built and tested with Node.js, powered by RESTful APIs that handle user interactions and content management. Data is managed through a scalable schema on AWS RDS (MySQL) and S3, with auxiliary tables and optimized queries ensuring consistency and efficient access across the application. Additionally, InstaLite relied on the vector database ChromaDB and image embeddings to support similarity queries and actors that look similar to the user profile picture.
