Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Scalable Audio to Video Conversion Tool Using Microservices
Introduction
Are you looking for a way to take your audio-to-video conversion game to the next level? Look no further than microservices. By breaking down your application into specialized services, you can scale and maintain your system with ease. In this blog, we'll explore how microservices can transform your audio-to-video conversion process. We'll show you how to build a scalable, flexible, and resilient system using microservices, with step-by-step guidance on implementing an audio-to-video converter application. Get ready to revolutionize your conversion process and take your application to the next level with microservices.
Definition of microservices
Microservices are the foundational components of contemporary software architecture, enabling developers to deconstruct intricate applications into smaller, autonomous, and scalable services. Each service is designed to execute a particular task or business function and can be effortlessly deployed and scaled independently, offering enhanced flexibility and adaptability to address evolving business requirements. Utilizing microservices, development teams can construct and distribute software more rapidly while preserving exceptional quality and performance.
Microservices architecture, which emphasizes smaller, specialized services, has supplanted monolithic architecture in large-scale software applications due to its flexibility, scalability, and resilience. This transition is revolutionizing industries by offering advantages such as faster release cycles and improved fault tolerance, ultimately shaping the future of software development.
Benefits and drawbacks of microservices
Benefits:
Scalability: One of the primary benefits of microservices architecture is scalability. Each service can be deployed and scaled independently, allowing for greater flexibility and efficiency.
Flexibility: Microservices architecture also offers greater flexibility in terms of development and deployment. Services can be developed using different languages and frameworks, which allows for greater innovation and experimentation.
Improved Performance: Microservices architecture can also lead to improved performance, as each service can be optimized for its specific task. This results in faster processing times and reduced response times.
Easier Maintenance: By breaking down the application into smaller, specialized services, maintenance becomes easier. Updates can be made to one service without affecting the others, which reduces the risk of downtime and ensures that the application remains up-to-date.
Drawbacks:
Complexity: One of the primary challenges of microservices architecture is complexity. With multiple services interacting with each other, it can be difficult to manage and monitor the entire system.
Communication Overhead: Communication between services can also be a challenge. With each service communicating with multiple other services, the overhead of managing these interactions can become significant.
Testing: Testing can also be more challenging in a microservices architecture, as each service needs to be tested individually and then tested in conjunction with the other services.
Cost: Finally, implementing a microservices architecture can be more expensive than a monolithic architecture, as it requires additional infrastructure and resources.
Microservices Architecture
At its core, microservices architecture is a software development approach that breaks down a monolithic application into a collection of smaller, independent services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. Each service is designed to perform a specific function and communicate with other services via well-defined APIs.
In the case of an audio-to-video converter application, microservices architecture can be used to break down the application into smaller, specialized services such as an Audio Service, Video Service, Conversion Service, and Storage Service. Each service is responsible for a specific function and can be scaled independently, resulting in a more efficient and reliable application.
Microservices Implementation
Oh my gosh, let's create an amazing microservices-based application that magically transforms audio into a video by brilliantly splitting it into specialized services! This is going to be so efficient and reliable! 🤩
Clone the repository from: https://github.com/chiragbiradar/MicroVid2Audio
Working:
When a client submits a video file through a POST request to the server, the gateway service intercepts the request. This service securely stores the video file in a database for future reference.
After the video file is stored, it is passed to a RabbitMQ queue, which is responsible for routing the file to the appropriate service for processing. In this case, the video file is sent to a video-to-MP3 converter service.
The video-to-MP3 converter service converts the video file into an audio format. Once the conversion is complete, the resulting audio file is placed back into the RabbitMQ queue for further processing.
Upon successful conversion of the audio file, a notification is automatically sent to the client's specified email address, confirming that the video-to-audio conversion has been completed. Additionally, an access key is sent to the client via email.
This access key provides a secure method for accessing the converted audio file. To download the file, the client sends a GET request to the server, along with the access key. The server authenticates this GET request, and once verified, the audio file becomes available for download.
Overall, this video-to-audio conversion process is efficient, secure, and seamless, thanks to the use of advanced technologies such as RabbitMQ and email notifications.
Prerequisites:
Docker
Kubernetes
Minikube
Python
Mysql
k9s
Project setup:
# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/chiragbiradar/MicroVid2Audio.git
# start minikube
minikube start
# start the minikube tunnel
minikube tunnel
# change to working directory
cd MicroVid2Audio/python/src/
cd auth
# Mysql config
mysql -uroot < init.sql
cd manifests
# deploy auth service
kubectl apply -f ./
cd ../..
cd converter/manifests
# deploy converter service
kubectl apply -f ./
cd ../..
cd gateway/manifests
# deploy gateway service
kubectl apply -f ./
cd ../..
cd notification/manifests
# deploy notification service
kubectl apply -f ./
cd ../..
cd rabbit/manifests
# deploy rabbitmq
kubectl apply -f ./
cd ../..
# map loopback address i.e, 127.0.0.1 mp3converter.com
# linux
sudo vim /etc/hosts
# windows
"C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
# add
127.0.0.1 mp3converter.com
# Sending a login request
curl -X POST http://mp3converter.com/login -u chiragsb16@gmail.com:Admin123
# you should be getting a token as shown below
eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImNoaXJhZzIwMTBueWNAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZXhwIjoxNjgyMDk4MzU4LCJpYXQiOjE2ODIwMTE5NTgsImFkbWluIjp0cnVlfQ.neowM4lmp9tWZSquQ6-ngHF4Ch8Ul5qqMMdQOekNHrU
# now go to the directory where your vedio file is located
curl -X POST -F 'file=@./test.mp4' -H 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImNoaXJhZzIwMTBueWNAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZXhwIjoxNjgyMDk4MzU4LCJpYXQiOjE2ODIwMTE5NTgsImFkbWluIjp0cnVlfQ.neowM4lmp9tWZSquQ6-ngHF4Ch8Ul5qqMMdQOekNHrU' http://mp3converter.com/upload
# to get the output check your mail you will be getting a token from login
# endpoint
curl --output mp3_download.mp3 -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImNoaXJhZzIwMTBueWNAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZXhwIjoxNjgyMDk4MzU4LCJpYXQiOjE2ODIwMTE5NTgsImFkbWluIjp0cnVlfQ.neowM4lmp9tWZSquQ6-ngHF4Ch8Ul5qqMMdQOekNHrU' "http://localhost:8080/download?fid=6215e4cf34424ed9cf58d3f6"
