SkyTrack API

SkyTrack API is a real-time weather service that pulls data from external APIs and uses Redis to cache responses, improving performance.

Features

• Real-time Weather Data: Fetches weather data from external APIs.
• Redis Caching: Caches responses to minimize external API calls and speed up performance.
• Rate Limiting: Limits the number of requests from a client to avoid overload.
• Design Patterns: Uses Adapter and Proxy patterns.

Architecture

The system fetches real-time weather data from external services and caches the results in Redis to enhance performance and reduce external API calls.

Design Patterns

• Adapter Pattern: Connects to external APIs, making it easy to switch between API providers.

  • Example: The WeatherApiAdapter adapts the third-party API data into the format expected by the system.

• Proxy Pattern: Adds a caching layer, so if the data is already available in Redis, it returns it without calling the external API again.

  • Example: The CachedWeatherService checks if the data is in Redis before fetching it from the API.

Rate Limiting

• Ensures clients do not exceed a certain number of requests in a given time, reducing the risk of server overload.