FriendsService

Friends microservice for Stonks! project.

How to Setup

Setup neo4j on Ubuntu 20 (EC2)

• Create free tier eligible EC2 instance with OS set to Ubuntu 20.04. Leave the other setup as default
• Setup the neo4j within it following this link
• After setting up to listen to 0.0.0.0, run sudo systemctl restart neo4j.service
• Create security group that open neo4j port to public (later on we should change it depending on our VPC / EC2 instance)
• Add it to the EC2 instance
• Get the EC2 public url for beanstalk

Setup Beanstalk

• git clone
• cd FriendsService
• Create .ebextensions/environment.config following .ebextensions/environment.config.example format. Change the content accordingly.
• zip -r ../FriendsService.zip . -x ".DS_Store" -x "__MACOSX"
• Open amazon console -> beanstalk -> create new environment
• Follow this setup
• Create environment
• notes:
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62479386/no-module-named-application-error-while-deploying-simple-web-app-to-elastic-be

Setup Lambda

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/python-package.html#python-package-create-package-with-dependency
• Important! dont forget to add SNS permission to any services using it.