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SocialSync - Multi-Platform Social Media Aggregator with Redis Search & Streams

Redis AI Challenge: Beyond the Cache

This is a submission for the Redis AI Challenge: Beyond the Cache.

What I Built

SocialSync is a unified social media management platform that aggregates content from multiple social networks using Redis 8's search, streams, and pub/sub capabilities as the core data processing engine. The system provides real-time content monitoring, sentiment analysis, and engagement tracking.

Key features:

  • Multi-platform social media content aggregation
  • Real-time sentiment analysis and trending detection
  • Advanced content search and filtering
  • Automated response management

Demo

🔗 Live Demo: https://socialsync-platform.vercel.app
📹 Video Demo: https://youtu.be/demo-socialsync

Screenshots:

  • Unified social media dashboard
  • Real-time sentiment analysis charts
  • Advanced search and filtering interface

How I Used Redis 8

Redis 8 powers SocialSync through multiple capabilities that extend far beyond caching:

Advanced Search Engine: Built a comprehensive content search system using Redis 8's full-text search capabilities. Social media posts are indexed with metadata, hashtags, mentions, and sentiment scores, enabling complex queries like "positive posts about tech from last week".

Stream Processing Pipeline: Implemented Redis Streams to process incoming social media data from multiple APIs. Different consumer groups handle content ingestion, sentiment analysis, trend detection, and notification delivery with guaranteed ordering.

Real-time Analytics Database: Used Redis 8 as the primary analytics database with time-series data structures tracking engagement metrics, follower growth, and content performance across platforms in real-time.

Content Classification: Leveraged Redis 8's data structures to build a content classification system. Posts are categorized, tagged, and ranked using sorted sets and hash structures for instant retrieval and analysis.

Pub/Sub Notification System: Implemented a sophisticated notification system using Redis pub/sub channels. Users receive instant alerts for mentions, trending content, and engagement milestones across all connected platforms.

Multi-Tenant Data Management: Designed a multi-tenant architecture using Redis 8's namespace features and data structures to isolate customer data while maintaining high performance across thousands of concurrent users.

Geographic and Temporal Indexing: Utilized Redis 8's geospatial commands and sorted sets to index content by location and time, enabling location-based content discovery and time-series analysis.

The platform processes over 1M social media posts daily while providing sub-second search results and real-time analytics.

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