This repository is dedicated to project work for the Course - Advances in Big Data Architecture - at Northeastern University. 

The project involves writing a REST service for Health Insurance Information exchange - that employs json-schema for strongly-typed data exchange protocol.

Etag and If-None-Match are used for enforcing efficient caching. 

Bearer Token based security features are implemented to ensure authentication and authorization.

The technologies used are:

Scala - programming language
Play - application framework
Redis - database

To run this project locally:

1. Make sure Redis is running locally: redis-server
2. Make sure activator/sbt is installed locally.
3. Command to run application: activator run
4. Look at routes file for the list of available HTTP verbs and URI paths