Price Monitoring/Notification System

Design a price monitoring system to monitor product price and notify subscribers if the price is reduced. Similar to Dealmoon.com.

Features

• Keeps track of product prices at an e-commerce web site.
• Allows users to subscribe by emails for interested product categories.
• Notifies subscribers if there is any discount product in the subscribed categories.
• Subscribers can specify minimum discount threshold of each category for receiving notifications.
• Also allows users to query discount products online.

Development environment

• MySQL DB is used to store categories, product list urls, products and users information.
• Mongo DB is used to store product crawling logs.
• Lombok is used to eliminate constructors and getter/setter implementation for cleaner coding style.
• RabbitMQ is used for communications between Product Crawler, Price Monitoring Service, Instant Notification Service and Product Log Service.
• Redis is used to cache last product price for fast price change comparison.
• Jsoup is used to retrieve web page content, parse the required text from the page.
• Spring Boot is used for fast REST API development and independant deployment.
• Spring Boot Actuator is used to provide monitoring information. (/health, /metrics... etc.)
• Spring Cloud is used to provide infrastructure services.

Design Diagrams

Getting Started

Start MongoDB, RabbitMQ on Docker

docker-compose up -d

Check data in MongoDB

Find mongodb container id

docker ps

Enter mongodb container by typing the first 3 charactters of the container id (ex: '9cd'), then type mongo inside the container to use mongodb shell command.

docker exec -it 9cd bash
# mongo                             // open mongo shell
> use test                          // Spring boot use test db as default
> show collections                  // show all collections inside test db
> db.productLog.find().pretty()     // show all data inside productLog table
> exit                              // quit mongo shell
> exit                              // exit container shell

Setup RabbitMQ

Create durable queues

q_product_p1_default
q_product_p2_default
q_product_p3_default
q_product_log.default
q_discount_product_p1.default
q_discount_product_p2.default
q_discount_product_p3.default
q_product_log.default

Create topic exchanges

q_discount_product_p1
q_discount_product_p2
q_discount_product_p3
q_product_log
q_product_p1
q_product_p2
q_product_p3

Binding queue to exchanges with routing key "#"

q_discount_product_p1   -->     q_discount_product_p1.default
q_discount_product_p2   -->     q_discount_product_p2.default
q_discount_product_p3   -->     q_discount_product_p3.default
q_product_log   -->     q_product_log.default
q_product_p1    -->     q_product_p1
q_product_p2    -->     q_product_p2
q_product_p3    -->     q_product_p3

Install Redis on Mac

> brew install redis

Start Redis

> brew services start redis

Run Redis Client

> redis-cli

Installation

mvn clean install

Start Category Crawler

> sh start-category-crawler.sh

Start Product Crawler

> sh start-product-crawler.sh

Start Price Monitoring Service

> sh start-price-monitoring-service.sh

Start Instant Notification Service

> sh start-instant-notification-service.sh

Start Product Log Service

> sh start-product-log-service.sh

Start User Service

> sh start-user-service.sh

Checkout application metrics

http://localhost:9004/health
http://localhost:9004/env
http://localhost:9004/metrics

Manually Trigger Category Crawler with Postman

GET localhost:9000/category-crawlers/categories

Manually Trigger Product Crawler with Postman

GET localhost:9001/product-crawlers/products/1  --> start high priority crawler
GET localhost:9001/product-crawlers/products/2  --> start medium priority crawler
GET localhost:9001/product-crawlers/products/3  --> start low priority crawler

LICENSE

MIT