Application overview -

• A backend server api for a Ecommerce website .

• Distributed microservice architecture for high scalability.

• Build on five services - Products , Customer , Shopping , Payments , Notification.

• All microserives are highly decoupled.

• This app follows the Event driven architecture.

• An event-driven architecture uses events to trigger and communicate between decoupled services

• RabbitMq is used as Message Queue for triggering events.

• NGINX is used as reverse proxy for directing the requests over to the services.

  

• Postman Collections: https://elements.getpostman.com/redirect?entityId=15798447-f3bb0199-1fa0-4a6f-bd9e-53b9150aa852&entityType=collection

  ENV files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DfITAPQVsh9Ty2ZlyioX3NVpkDoZTpgX?usp=sharing

Setup Instructions

• S1 Clone the project.
• S2 Create a file .env in the root folder of all four services.ie ./Payments/.env .
• S3 Make sure that docker is installed in the system.
• S4 Open terminal in root folder of the project where docker-compose.yml file is present and run following commands.

# make sure that port 8080 is free for this application and ports are free as per the docker-compose.yml.
docker compose build --no-cache
docker compose up

To verify that all four services are running properly open the following four links in the browser

• http://localhost:8000/customer/status
• http://localhost:8000/products/status
• http://localhost:8000/payments/status
• http://localhost:8000/shopping/status

Each of them would give a message like : Customer service running properly , Products service running properly , Payments service running properly , Shopping service running properly

# To close application

docker compose down

Architechture of Microservice