FOLIO

A real-time clothing search engine that scrapes product catalogues from 150+ brands across 10 countries, streams raw listings through Kafka, cleans and deduplicates them with Spark Structured Streaming, and serves results through a FastAPI backend to a React frontend. TF-IDF cosine similarity powers recommendations; a RandomForest ML discovery loop continuously finds new brands the system doesn't know about yet. Falls back to direct SQLite writes if Kafka is unavailable.