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Scalable Architecture Microservice Example
Manages the full order lifecycle for the e-commerce platform including creation, validation, payment coordination, and fulfillment tracking. Bounded context: Orders.
commerce orders critical-path tier-1
Scalable Architecture Microservice Example is an example object payload from Scalable Architecture, with 12 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.
Top-level fields
name version description team domain api dependencies resources scaling resilience observability tags
Example Payload
{
"name": "order-service",
"version": "2.4.1",
"description": "Manages the full order lifecycle for the e-commerce platform including creation, validation, payment coordination, and fulfillment tracking. Bounded context: Orders.",
"team": "commerce-platform",
"domain": "orders",
"api": {
"protocol": "HTTP/REST",
"version": "v2",
"baseUrl": "https://orders.internal.example.com/v2",
"healthEndpoint": "/health",
"metricsEndpoint": "/metrics"
},
"dependencies": [
{
"name": "payment-service",
"type": "synchronous",
"required": true,
"circuitBreaker": true
},
{
"name": "inventory-service",
"type": "synchronous",
"required": true,
"circuitBreaker": true
},
{
"name": "order-events",
"type": "asynchronous",
"required": false,
"circuitBreaker": false
},
{
"name": "orders-db",
"type": "database",
"required": true,
"circuitBreaker": false
},
{
"name": "session-cache",
"type": "cache",
"required": false,
"circuitBreaker": false
}
],
"resources": {
"requests": {
"cpu": "200m",
"memory": "256Mi"
},
"limits": {
"cpu": "1000m",
"memory": "512Mi"
}
},
"scaling": {
"minReplicas": 2,
"maxReplicas": 20,
"targetCPUUtilizationPercentage": 70,
"scaleToZero": false,
"scalingTrigger": "cpu"
},
"resilience": {
"circuitBreaker": {
"enabled": true,
"threshold": 0.5,
"timeout": 30
},
"retry": {
"enabled": true,
"maxAttempts": 3,
"backoff": "exponential"
},
"timeout": {
"requestTimeoutMs": 5000,
"connectionTimeoutMs": 1000
}
},
"observability": {
"tracingEnabled": true,
"metricsEnabled": true,
"loggingLevel": "INFO",
"samplingRate": 0.05
},
"tags": ["commerce", "orders", "critical-path", "tier-1"]
}