OSD700 - Setting up Telescope and more

Last semester in OSD600, we were introduced to the Telescope project, maintained by developers at Seneca College. It was a daunting experience to set it up locally initially, as I ran into issues with authentication and correctly seeding the Postgres database. With support from the project's maintainers, I could run Telescope properly on my operating system and contribute to both the client side and the project's backend.

Steps I take to Start Telescope

1. Load Docker Desktop client
2. Run the pnpm services:start script
3. Stop parser using Docker Desktop client
4. After all the containers are started, run: cp ./src/db/env.example .env
5. Run pnpm db:init script
6. Restart parser using pnpm services:start parser

Memory Issues

I have no issues running Telescope on my machine, except that specific containers consume too much memory space, which makes my system lag. I also helped one of my peers connect to the Telescope's backend locally.

Goals

This semester, I look forward to familiarizing myself more with microservices and Docker, so I am comfortable using these technologies in the future.