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Overview
Smart Route is a cloud-native navigation engine that computes optimized travel routes by evaluating real-time traffic feeds and pathfinding algorithms.
The system integrates Google Maps API with custom graph optimization algorithms to calculate the most efficient routes considering live traffic conditions, road closures, and historical patterns.
Deployed on AWS, the service ensures scalable, low-latency updates for routing calculations, handling concurrent requests efficiently through a well-architected Flask backend.
Highlights
- →Real-time traffic-aware route optimization
- →Cloud-deployed on AWS for scalable, low-latency performance
- →Custom graph algorithms integrated with Google Maps API
Challenges
- →Integrating real-time traffic data with graph-based pathfinding algorithms while maintaining sub-second response times.
- →Designing the AWS deployment architecture to handle traffic spikes and ensure consistent low-latency responses.
- →Handling edge cases in routing - road closures, one-way streets, and multi-modal transportation options.
Key Learnings
- →Learned how to optimize graph algorithms for real-world routing scenarios with dynamic edge weights.
- →Gained hands-on experience with AWS deployment, auto-scaling, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- →Understood the importance of caching strategies when working with rate-limited external APIs.