PhileSpace
Multi-tenant digital collection system
PhileSpace is a large multi-tenant application developed as a product for Studio.Energy (previously Energyphile). As a team, we developed PhileSpace using a stack of React, Node.JS, Express, and GraphQL and have managed ongoing maintenance and addressed technical debt over the long-term development of the project. The platform utilizes browser Canvas features to provide a seamless exploration of the data in an intuitive display as if cards were on a table.
Development
My more recent involvement in the project was in the addition of sub-collections, or "Rooms" as they are named in the product, which allows content administrators to curate smaller subsets of their overall collection into public or private sets. This functionality was integrated to work alongside existing features and deployed to production seamlessly. Deployments are managed through Kubernetes and Helm charts, which are deployed to AWS.
Another area that I was involved in for the project was the development of a module-based plugin system that allows tenants of the multi-tenant system to have unique features or datasets associated with assets in the database. These modules are configurable per tenant and can be leveraged in the future for small to large feature sets such as payments, additional fields on assets, unique interfaces, and more.
Deployment
PhileSpace is a complex application developed in a monorepo format with several microservices acting together to provide the overall user experience and administrative backends. This required a more robust and scalable deployment to ensure availability and uptime in line with the expectations of tenants.
For these reasons, we deployed the application to an Elastic Kubernetes Cluster (EKS) in AWS with the database deployed through AWS Relational Database Service (RDS). This allowed us to configure Helm charts for the deployment which were easily updated and revised as the needs of the project evolved.
The PhileSpace application is a robust and complex platform that creates new and novel ways of exploring a collection of artifacts, collectibles, or even complex data.
Skills: React, Express, GraphQL, MySQL, Auth0, RBAC, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm