BASIC MICROSERVICE PROJECT IN GO

This project is a basic blog application backend, my attempt at implementing a microservice application with different communication design patterns

Here's my proposed architecture

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SERVICES

• Auth (REST)
• User (REST)
• Gateway (REST)
• Logger (Message Queue)
• Avater generator (Message Queue)
• Notification (Pub-Sub)
• Data Retriever (GraphQL)
• Post (REST)
• Admin (RPC)

AUTH

1. Login

• verify user info
• return jwt token

2. Forgot Password

• send verification OTP to mail
• validate otp and update password

USER

1. Signup

• connects to database (sql)
• verify user email
• store user information
• send user id to avater-generator service queue

GATEWAY

1. Validate client jwt
2. Routes request to appropriate service

AVATER-GENERATOR

1. Generate a custom avater based on first letters of user first and last names.
2. Upload generated avater to AWS S3
3. Update user record with avater url

LOGGER

1. save logs to datebase (mongo)

NOTIFICATION

1. Push Notification
2. Email
3. SMS

DATA_RETRIEVER

1. Handles the query of all data with GraphQL

POST

1. CRUD ops on blog posts
2. CRUD ops on blog comments
3. Clap blog post

Admin

NOTE

To run the gateway locally, update the base urls of the services in the conf.yml file e.g http://auth-service -> http://localhost

USAGE

run

docker-compose build && docker-compose up