Ecommerce User Service

This is the GRPC user service that handles all activities in the ecommerce application that has to do with users (retrieve, update etc).

Applications

• Jaeger

  • Jaeger is an open source software for tracing transactions between distributed services.

• Nats

  • NATS is an open-source messaging system (sometimes called message-oriented middleware).
  • NATS is used in the user service for communicating with the notification service when a new user is added.

• MongoDB

  • MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database management program. NoSQL is used as an alternative to traditional relational databases.
  • The user service stores users in MongoDB.

Usage

To install / run the user microservice run the command below:

docker-compose up

Requirements

The application requires the following:

• Go (v 1.5+)
• Docker (v3+)
• Docker Compose

Other Micro-Services / Resources

• Product Service

• Notification Service

• Cart Service

• Shared

Public API

The public graphql API that interacts with the microservices internally can be found in https://github.com/wisdommatt/ecommerce-microservice-public-api.