by Gerard Sans |  @gerardsans

Building a

serverless geolocation API

Building a

serverless geolocation API

SANS

GERARD

Developer Advocate AWS

Developer Advocate AWS

International Speaker

Spoken at 143 events in 37 countries

Bike Sharing

Benefits

  • Transport flexibility
  • Reduce traffic emissions
  • Reduce traffic congestion
  • Health benefits for users

Santander Cycles

Overview

  • Since 2010
  • +12,000 Bikes
  • 778 stations

Boris Bikes

LNDBikes

Fullstack Serverless

🦄

🌩️

Icons made by Gregor Cresnar from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 BY
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No servers to manage

Fault tolerance High availability

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Never pay for idle usage

Auto-scales immediately

Serverless

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London

Unified API

/BikePoint

/BikePoint/id

TfL Unified API

/BikePoint/Search

[
  {
    "id": "BikePoints_1",
    "commonName": "River Street , Clerkenwell",
    "additionalProperties": [{
      "key": "NbBikes", "value": "11",
     }],
    "lat": 51.529163,
    "lon": -0.10997
  }
  // 777 more
]

/BikePoint

{
  "id": "BikePoints_1",
  "commonName": "River Street , Clerkenwell",
  "additionalProperties": [{
    "key": "NbBikes", "value": "11",
  }],
  "lat": 51.529163,
  "lon": -0.10997
}

/BikePoint/BikePoints_1

Loading   bike stations

Data Transformations

GeoJSONfeature

BikesPoint

{
  "type": "Feature",
  "geometry": {
    "type": "Point",
    "coordinates": [-0.10997, 51.529163]
  },
  "properties": {
    "id": "BikePoints_1",
    "name": "River Street , Clerkenwell"
  }
}

geoJSON feature

Coordinates = [-0.10997, 51.529163]

51.529163

-0.10997

Coordinates

Data Transformations

GeoJSONfeature

BikesPoint

mapbox Source

mapbox Layer

REST API integration

type BikePoint @model {
  id: ID!
  name: String!
  description: String
  location: Location
  bikes: Int
}

GraphQL Schema

// request VTL template
{
  "version": "2018-05-29",
  "method": "GET",
  "resourcePath": "/BikePoint/$context.source.id",
}

BikePoint.bikes HTTP Resolver

// response VTL template
#set($body = $util.parseJson($ctx.result.body))
#if($ctx.error)
  $util.error($ctx.error.message, $ctx.error.type)
#end
#if($ctx.result.statusCode == 200)
  $body.additionalProperties[6].value
#else
  #return
#end

BikePoint.bikes HTTP Resolver

Adding Search

type BikePoint @model @searchable {
  id: ID!
  name: String!
  description: String
  location: Location
  bikes: Int
}
type Location {
  lat: Float
  lon: Float
}
type Query {
  nearbyBikeStations(location: LocationInput!, m: Int, limit: Int)
}

GraphQL Schema

Data Transformations

GeoJSONfeature

BikesPoint

GraphQL API

Elastic Search

# Create index
PUT /bikepoint

# Setup location type as geo_point
PUT /bikepoint/_mapping/doc
{
  "properties": {
    "location": {
      "type": "geo_point"
    }
  }
}

Elastic Search index

mutation addBikePoint {
  createBikePoint(input: { 
    id: "BikePoints_1" 
    name: "River Street , Clerkenwell" 
    location: { 
      lat: 51.529163 
      lon: -0.10997 
    } 
  }) { id }
}

Automatic indexing

GET /bikepoint/doc/_search
{ 
  "query": {
    "bool" : {
      "must" : { "match_all" : {} },
      "filter" : {
        "geo_distance" : {
          "distance" : "500m",
          "distance_type": "arc", 
          "location" : {
            "lon": -0.134167, "lat": 51.510239
          }

Query nearbyBikeStations (1/2)

  "sort": [{
    "_geo_distance": {
      "location": {
        "lon": -0.134167, "lat": 51.510239
      },
      "order": "asc",
      "unit": "m",
      "distance_type": "arc"
    }
  }]
}

Query nearbyBikeStations (2/2)

Distance Calculations

[lon1, lat1]

[lon2, lat2]

Haversine Formula

Great-circle distance

Distance Calculations

double distance(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) {
  return 6378137 * haversine(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2);
}

double haversine(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2) {
  double hsinX = Math.sin((lon1 - lon2) * 0.5);
  double hsinY = Math.sin((lat1 - lat2) * 0.5);
  double h = hsinY * hsinY + (Math.cos(lat1) * Math.cos(lat2) * hsinX * hsinX);
  return 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(h), Math.sqrt(1 - h));
}

ElasticSearch arc distance (WGS 84)

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