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Site Reliability Engineer - Basic API Hosting Task

Part 1 – The Web Service

Write a web service in any language that takes in a JSON payload, does some basic validation against an expected message format and content, and then puts that payload into a queue of your choice or a file.

Example valid payload:

{
  "ts": "1530228282",
  "sender": "curler-user",
  "message": {
    "foo": "bar",
    "hash": "bash"
  },
  "sent-from-ip": "1.2.3.4"
}

Validation rules: ● “ts” must be present and a valid Unix timestamp ● “sender” must be present and a string ● “message” must be present, a JSON object, and have at least one field set ● If present, “sent-from-ip” must be a valid IPv4 address ● All fields not listed in the example above are invalid, and should result in the message being rejected.

Part 2 – Terraform

Deploy this application to your favourite cloud provider using Terraform.

Part 3 – NewRelic

Implement NewRelic monitoring for this application using Terraform.