New Project - Memphis BBQ Review Website

I started a new project to test some devops concepts - see my live link here - live project

architecture

It is a Memphis BBQ Restaurant review website. I am hosting it on AWS using several new technologies for me - Lambda instead of EC2, DynamoDB instead of RDS/MySQL, and using Cognito for authentication (this is my first project with auth).

I have the shell of it live - you can create an account and rate five restaurants right now. I will add more complexity to it as I go along.

github actions - terraform

For DevOps concepts this is my first multi-environment project - I’ve got dev and prod environments. Also the deployment is only through GitHub Actions like some other projects I have built, but in a change, all of the infrastructure is created through terraform code. I am running actions for plan and apply with a checkov testing step in between to check for security and compliance misconfigurations in the terraform code.

github actions - python

The application code (endpoints) is written in python with a linter (ruff), dependency scan (pip-audit - to check for vulnerable dependencies), and a unit test suite (pytest) with 69 tests to test code functionality. All of the tests must pass before deployment.

Overall I have enjoyed working on this project. I have used Claude Code to put it together but it has still taken me over 22 hours of seat time to get this far. I am looking forward to the next steps on it.