✈️ AeroTrack: Real-Time Flight Tracker

AeroTrack is a real-time geospatial tracking system built to monitor and visualize live flight data. It demonstrates a stateful, event-driven architecture by ingesting live data, managing the current state of each flight, and pushing updates in real-time to connected clients.

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Technologies Used

• Go (Golang): Core backend service
• WebSockets: Low-latency, real-time communication
• PostgreSQL: Source of truth for flight data
• Docker: Containerization for easy setup

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Core Features

• Live Data Ingestion:
  Background process simulates or ingests flight coordinate data.

• Real-Time State Management:
  Maintains current location and status for each flight in memory.

• WebSocket Broadcast:
  Broadcasts location changes to all connected clients.

• Data Persistence:
  Persists all flight data and route history in PostgreSQL.

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Getting Started

This project is containerized with Docker for a straightforward setup.

Prerequisites

• Docker & Docker Compose
• Go (if running outside Docker)

Setup

git clone https://github.com/telman03/aerotrack.git
cd aerotrack 

Start the services:

docker-compose up --build -d

Check the logs:

docker-compose logs -f aerotrack-service

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Architecture Overview

The system follows a simple client-server model with a focus on real-time data flow.

+-------------------+         WebSocket         +---------------------+
|   Go Backend      | <-----------------------> |   Client Dashboard  |
| (Data, DB, WS)    |                          | (Map Visualization) |
+-------------------+                          +---------------------+
         |
         | PostgreSQL
         v
+-------------------+
|   Flight Data DB  |
+-------------------+

• Go Backend:

  • Data Simulation (Goroutine)
  • PostgreSQL Interface
  • WebSocket Server

• PostgreSQL:
  Stores flight data (long-term memory)

• Client Dashboard:
  (Not included) Connects via WebSockets to visualize live flight paths

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