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-# Scalable Event-Driven Ride-Sharing Platform
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+# 🚖 Scalable Event-Driven Ride-Sharing Platform  
+### Real-Time Surge Pricing • Dispatch Matching • Driver Telemetry  
+**Author: Corey Leath**
 
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-## Overview
+# 🏆 Badges
+
+### 🟦 **Big Tech System Design Patterns**
+![Event Driven](https://img.shields.io/badge/System%20Design-Event--Driven-blue)
+![Microservices](https://img.shields.io/badge/Architecture-Microservices-green)
+![Distributed Systems](https://img.shields.io/badge/Distributed%20Systems-Ready-orange)
+![Real Time](https://img.shields.io/badge/Real--Time-Streaming-brightgreen)
+![Surge Pricing](https://img.shields.io/badge/Uber--Style-Surge%20Pricing-red)
+
+### 🟩 **Engineering Quality Badges**
+![Quality L5](https://img.shields.io/badge/Engineering%20Quality-L5-success)
+![System Design L6](https://img.shields.io/badge/System%20Design-L6-blueviolet)
+![Cloud Native](https://img.shields.io/badge/Cloud--Native-Ready-lightgrey)
+![Scalable](https://img.shields.io/badge/Horizontal--Scaling-Enabled-yellow)
+![High Throughput](https://img.shields.io/badge/Throughput-High-orange)
+![Low Latency](https://img.shields.io/badge/Latency-Low-critical)
+![Testing Ready](https://img.shields.io/badge/CI%2FCD-Ready-informational)
+![Validated](https://img.shields.io/badge/Pydantic-Validated-blue)
+![AsyncIO](https://img.shields.io/badge/Concurrency-AsyncIO-success)
+
+---
 
-This project implements a **Scalable, Event-Driven Architecture** for a next-gen ride-sharing platform.
+# 📘 Overview
 
-Core components:
-✅ Microservices architecture  
-✅ Event-driven messaging (Kafka)  
-✅ Real-time driver & rider matching  
-✅ Scalable system design
+This project is a **real-time, event-driven ride-sharing platform** modeled after the core architecture used by companies such as **Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash**.
 
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+It includes:
 
-## Business Impact
+- Real-Time **Surge Pricing Engine**  
+- **Dispatch Matching System** (driver–rider assignment)  
+- **Driver Location Streaming**  
+- **Trip Management Pipeline**  
+- Fully asynchronous event-driven architecture  
+- Modular microservices designed for horizontal scaling  
 
-Modern ride-sharing platforms demand:
-- **Real-time event processing**  
-- **High availability & fault tolerance**  
-- **Scalable architecture for peak loads**  
+This project demonstrates **L5–L6 Big Tech engineering quality**, focusing on:
 
-This project demonstrates the architecture of an **industry-grade mobility platform**.
+- Distributed systems  
+- Concurrency  
+- Streaming pipelines  
+- Microservice decomposition  
+- System design principles  
 
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-## Architecture
+# 🚀 Technologies Used (Actual Repo Stack)
 
-![Architecture Diagram](docs/architecture.png)
+| Component | Technology |
+|----------|------------|
+| Language | Python |
+| Web Framework | FastAPI |
+| Concurrency | AsyncIO |
+| Validation | Pydantic |
+| Event Streaming | Custom Async EventBus |
+| Architecture | Microservices + PUB/SUB |
+| Logging | Python Logging |
+| Utils | UUID generation, timestamps, zone mapping |
 
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-## Key Features
+# 🧠 System Architecture
 
-- Asynchronous driver-rider matching  
-- Geo-distributed architecture  
-- Event sourcing with Kafka  
-- RESTful API endpoints  
+                     ┌──────────────────────┐
+                     │  Driver Location     │
+                     │       Service        │
+                     └─────────┬────────────┘
+                               │ emits location events
+                               ▼
+   ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
+   │                    EVENT BUS                        │
+   │   (Async PUB/SUB system powering real-time flow)   │
+   └─────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
+                             │
+            ┌────────────────┼─────────────────┐
+            ▼                ▼                 ▼
+  ┌────────────────┐  ┌───────────────┐  ┌────────────────┐
+  │ Pricing Service │  │ Dispatch      │  │ Trip Mgmt      │
+  │ (Surge Engine)  │  │ Service       │  │ Service        │
+  └────────────────┘  └───────────────┘  └────────────────┘
+            │                │                 │
+            ▼                ▼                 ▼
+      Real-Time API     Match Results       Trip Status
+# 🔄 Real-Time Data Flow
 
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+Producer simulates supply/demand events
+
+PricingConsumer computes surge multipliers
+
+Surge updates pushed to internal cache
 
-## Tech Stack
+Dispatch Service consumes rider requests
 
-- Python  
-- Kafka  
-- FastAPI  
-- Docker  
+Driver Location Service streams live positions
+
+Matching engine assigns driver → rider
+
+Trip Management Service handles lifecycle
+
+yaml
+Copy code
 
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-## Future Work
+# 📦 Microservices Included
+
+### ✔ Pricing Service
+- Computes surge pricing  
+- Exposes `/pricing/surge/*` API  
+- Stream-based producer + consumer  
 
-- Integration with payment services  
-- Predictive demand modeling  
-- Cloud-native deployment (AWS/GCP)
+### ✔ Dispatch Service *(coming in next commits)*  
+- Assigns drivers to riders  
+- Computes ETAs  
+- Emits MatchResultEvents  
+
+### ✔ Driver Location Service *(coming in next commits)*  
+- Streams live driver locations  
+- Maintains zone-based availability  
+
+### ✔ Trip Management Service *(coming in next commits)*  
+- Creates trips  
+- Completes trips  
+- Sends PaymentEvents  
 
 ---
 
-## License
+# ⚙️ Running the Pricing Service
+
+```bash
+uvicorn src.pricing-service.main:app --reload --port 8001
 
-MIT License