Microservice Project

The microservice template features an application serving a web api and a worker listening to a queue. It's based on the Lumen Framework, a lightweight subset of Laravel.

Objectives

Must haves:

• Exchange the database from a SQLite to MySQL
• Upgrade the Lumen Framework to Version 5.6
• Provide infrastructure as code
  • Can be a AWS CloudFormation template or comparable format
  • Can be a draft
  • Application and Worker must be separate
  • Application must have publically accessible endpoint
  • Worker must be able to poll SQS
• In your own words describe your scaling policy
  • For the application
  • For the worker

Nice to haves:

• +1 if you describe your monitoring and alarming plan
• +1 if you describe how you would improve the worker queuelistener

Provided structure

In addition to a default Lumen installation the project features the following:

• docker dockerfiles and configuration files
  • docker/app application service configuration
  • docker/worker worker service configuration
  • Both services include configuration files within the rootfs folder
• docker-compose.yml configuration for the development environment
• .env.example example environment configuration file
• composer.json dependencies, installation and git hook helpers
• phpunit.xml testsuite and test environment configuration

Installation / Getting started

Initialize this project as a git repository. Make the first commit wihout applying any changes to the code. Then, start your solution.

git init .
git add .
git commit -m "Your initial commit message of choice"

• Ensure you have php7+ installed on your system
• Ensure you have docker and docker-compose installed on your system
• Install composer
• run composer install to install dependencies
• create a .env from the .env.example
• run composer create-database to initialize the database
• run composer test to verify a successful installation
• start the development environment with docker-compose up -d

Once the environment is running you can hit the following endpoints:

• 127.0.0.1/
• 127.0.0.1/status

Project submission

Feel free to place this test on your Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc account as a public repository. Send the link back to Joblocal. We are looking forward to hearing from you. Good luck! :)