Zipcar - Automobile Rental Service Platform

A computer system to support car rental service designed for millennial fast life!

• Implemented Zipcar website using Django python web framework that allows users to rent a vehicle. Maintained scalable and distributed MongoDB database and built CICD pipeline using Git, Jenkins, and Ansible
• Deployed web application components to AWS in auto scaled EC2 cluster with Elastic load balancer accompanied by NGINX as production deployment server and Gunicorn as WSGI interface.

Application Demo: https://zipcarlive.herokuapp.com/

Group Members:

• Nupur Yadav
• Chetan Kulkarni
• Lokesh Vadlamudi
• Ronak Mehta

Project Board

Project Journal

Google Sprint Task Sheet

Burn Down Chart:

XP Core Values Implemented:

• Nupur Yadav - Communication
• Chetan Kulkarni - Simplicity
• Lokesh Vadlamudi - Courage
• Ronak Mehta - Feedback

Architecture Diagram:

Component Diagram:

Deployment Diagram:

Design Pattern:

We have used Django's MTV (Model, Template and View) architecture which is a slight variation of MVC architecture as shown below.

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Working of MTV architecture:

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Jmeter Stress Testing

Following screenshots shows the CPU utilization and network in/out when we hit our application with 1000 requests. It can be seen because of loadbalancing the traffic is divided among all the instances and a spike is seen in CPU utilization of all the instances.

Instance 1

Instance 2