Microservice-Based Integration Framework for a Back-Office Solution

• Autor(a) principal: Luis, Pedro Filipe Marcos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/17441
• topic: Microservices; Microservice Integration Patterns; Back-Office Integration

Not long ago, monolithic applications ruled among production servers – these applications had massive scopes which made them difficult to maintain, with constraints of libraries shared between modules and where every change or update is attached with big downtimes. To stray from this approach, enterprises chose to divide their big applications into smaller ones with fewer responsibilities, a clearer notion of boundaries and for the better part of it, more maintainable and scalable. The microservice approach allows enterprises to better divide themselves among teams that follow the full stack and spectrum of development in each application, from the persistence layer through the API and to the client, and from planning, through development to later support. The project exposed in this paper enlightens the scenario of an e-commerce platform’s back-office - where the implementation of a strangler pattern divided a large monolithic application into smaller microservices – leaving the door open for the integration of the multiple client applications to interconnect. The proposed solution intends to integrate the various systems of Jumia and take on this exposed opportunity, resorting to a microservice architecture and integration patterns with the objective of easing the flow of operations for processes that involve several management tools.