CyberNight
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Overview
A SaaS project built to explore the intersection of cybersecurity, software development and infrastructure — designing, not just consuming, a secure product.
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Problem
Most of my cybersecurity learning happened by analyzing existing systems. Building one from scratch surfaces a different set of problems: how security decisions get baked into architecture from day one.
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Solution
A FastAPI backend handles the application logic, MySQL and Redis manage persistent and cached data, React powers the interface, and the whole stack is containerized for reproducible deployment.
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Architecture
A service-oriented backend (FastAPI) talks to MySQL for persistence and Redis for caching/session data, with the React frontend consuming the API. Docker packages each service, and Kubernetes handles orchestration.
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Technologies
FastAPI, MySQL, Redis, React, Docker, Kubernetes.
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Challenges
Learning Kubernetes orchestration alongside application development at the same time — infrastructure and product decisions kept influencing each other.
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Result
A working full-stack SaaS project that ties together backend development, data layers, containerization and orchestration — an ongoing project I keep iterating on.
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