The document discusses the creation of a platform called Social Compass, designed to facilitate information sharing among students, professionals, and academics. It highlights features such as profile creation, job searching, and resource sharing, as well as the technical challenges and solutions involved in building a scalable and user-friendly website. The project was completed in six months utilizing various technologies and development tools to ensure efficient performance.

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Case Study
Social compass for talents to explore a
dynamic and fast education community

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The client demanded a platform for young students to commercially aware PhD students
to professors and professionals to share valuable information by creating relationships
among beautiful minds. By encompassing the experts in the Academic and Business
scene the website acts as a platform for valuable information sharing and gives access
to the community’s collective, creative and global mindset.
Following are the features that can be used by the registered members which include:
can browse almost every section of the website including news, events, messages,
question and answer, contacts, recent updates, statistics, articles, create your profiles,
groups, forums, view other member's basic profiles, search and apply for jobs etc.
The system also featured:
 Student can share notes, materials, gain companies insight or seek expert advice
on learning materials from top advisors as well as join or create new groups
based on their academic interest or social circles. Also, the students can enroll for
various courses and connect with students like themselves around the world. For
higher education professionals the website will help them promote the programs
and courses to increase the student enrollment.
 Designing the collaborative relationships of faculty and students interactions to
make the most of their experiences.
 Strengthen the professional connections and help them build their professional
networks of colleges, universities etc. thus helping in their career growth.
Project Challenges
Team faced the following challenges:
 Developing a robust framework for the site which is capable of managing millions of
users at the same time without slowing the site down.
 Ensuring easy navigation through the implementation of web usability principles in the
website design.
 Synchronizing the integrated features like articles, messages, statistics and more while
being executed simultaneously.
 Enabling the site to operate a,t top speed even in peak traffic hours and maintaining
good load balance.
 Ensuring safe and secure transfer of data.
Client Requirement

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Technologies Used
Manpower
Planning
The enormous structure of the website and the challenges involved necessitated
the adoption of a four-tier approach that consisted of:
 MYSQL Server Database, Tables, Stored Procedures etc… incorporated within the
Database layer.
 Conversion of data between incompatible type systems in databases and accessing data
from the database for the Interface layer and Database Abstraction layer respectively.
 All the business logic procedures for various modules formed the Business Logic layer.
 The GUI of the website formed the User Interface layer.
Operating System &
Server Management
Red Hat Linux OS, Multi-Server Architecture with Staging & Production
Environment through Version Controlling releases, Server
Optimization, Security & SSL Implementation, Scheduler for Back-ups,
Alert Monitoring System Integration, Server Performance Tuning at
regular intervals, Software Firewall Configuration & Maintenance
Development Tools &
Environments
PHP5+, Symfony Framework 1.4, AJAX, Java Script, HTML5, CSS3
etc.
Database MYSQL Database Server, DB Clustering, DB Optimization, Master
Slave Replication, Query Optimization, Scheduler for Backups
Project Leader 1
Developers 2
Designers 1
Quality Assurance Testers 1

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Architecture
The website was mainly characterized by rich user data and featured extensive capabilities
of social networking nature which entailed MySQL Server and Symfony. The development
structure was specifically implemented to facilitate the ‘faster to market’ transition of such
concepts. Effective access to the database in an object oriented context was implemented
using an interface translating the object logic to relational logic so as to communicate with
the relational databases in an object-oriented manner.
The access to the database was enabled through the creation of an intermediary
abstraction layer. Only the complex retrieval of data from multiple tables was facilitated
through stored procedures and everywhere else conditional syntax was implemented to
ensure seamless performance of the website. Images, applications and data were called
from their respective servers keeping the UI layer free of any business logic.
Development Highlights
The entire framework was kept highly scalable in order to provide adaptability & ease
while incorporating new features. Extensive pre-development research was carried out to
create a robust application with extensive customizations in minimum time frame. Web
usability guidelines were strictly adhered during the development and the interface was
made easily navigable through the judicious use of CSS, AJAX and HTML controls. The site
was developed and fully functional within a span of 6 months.