Working on making a GraphQL API for anyone trying to get information about manga from mangaupdates.com

Check it out the project

I've been working on my manga GraphQL API recently and I've noticed that getting information on series/manga takes upwards of 4 seconds on every request. This is mostly attributed to having to scrape mangaupdates.com for the info.

However, I realized that it isn't a good experience for consumers and can lead to more request to mangaupdates. So I decided to cache any requests, so future requests will be faster and use less resources.

Adding redis reduce request times from 2-3 seconds to 77 ms upon requesting for the same data.

If you want to try out the changes:
https://mangaupdates-api.herokuapp.com/graphql

Want to look at the code or contribute:
https://github.com/kirtanp98/mangaupdates-graphql-api

My first post here :)

I'll be probably posting updates on the projects I'm working on and random stuff I'm doing.

Excited to join Tradeweb as Software Engineer! 🎉

Ended my journey as Software Developer 1 at Vanguard Group!

My friend (Arjun) and I have been working on this app for the past summer. We know the stress that students have when trying to sign up for a popular course that just fills up. While there are other websites/apps that have a similar feature, we don’t prioritize paid users and have working notifications.

trackRU is a Rutgers course tracker/sniper app, which notifies the user whenever their tracked course is open. It send a push notification to the user, prompting them to open webreg.


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