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Cloud-native infrastructure.

A production-grade REST API deployed on AWS with full DevSecOps pipeline — containerized, monitored, secured, and infrastructure-as-code.

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skybytes.live — REST API

$ curl https://skybytes.live/users

[

{ "id": 1, "name": "Andrei", "email": "andrei@example.com" },

{ "id": 2, "name": "Test User", "email": "test@test.com" }

]

$ curl -X POST https://skybytes.live/users \

-d '{"name":"New User","email":"new@test.com"}'

{"id": 3, "name": "New User", "email": "new@test.com"}

// tech stack

Built with the right tools.

☁️

AWS Infrastructure

VPC, EC2 (t3.micro), RDS MySQL, IAM Roles, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, Elastic IP

⬡

Terraform

Full infrastructure as code — VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2, and EIP managed declaratively

🐳

Docker

API containerized with Docker and orchestrated via docker-compose for reproducible deployments

⚡

Node.js + Express

RESTful API with full CRUD operations, async/await, connection pooling, and dotenv config

🔒

Security

HTTPS via Let's Encrypt, AWS Secrets Manager for credentials, IAM roles — zero plaintext secrets

🔄

CI/CD

GitHub Actions pipeline — auto deploy to EC2 on every push to main branch

// architecture

How it all connects.

CLIENT → https://skybytes.live # domain via Namecheap DNS

↓

NGINX → port 80/443 # reverse proxy + SSL termination

↓

DOCKER → localhost:3000 # containerized Express API

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AWS RDS → MySQL 8.4 # managed database, SSL required

# Credentials flow

EC2 → IAM Role → Secrets Manager # no .env secrets

# Deploy flow

git push → GitHub Actions → SSH → docker-compose up

Cloud-native infrastructure.

Built with the right tools.

How it all connects.

Open source.