Microservices Enabled E-Commerce Web Application

Abstract

Abstract: Microservices are emerging as a new computing paradigm which is a suitable complementation of cloud computing. Microservices decompose traditional monolithic applications into a set of fine-grained services which can be independently developed, tested and deployed. In this work we have developed an e-commerce web application using microservices architecture. The drawbacks of monolithic architecture are overcome by microservices in building the e-commerce web application. The web application is developed using MERN stack technology. The services developed in the application are containerized using Docker containers. The containerized services are then managed using Kubernetes which is an orchestration platform. Skaffold is used in the application to sync local code files with the cold files in Docker. The events emitted by services are managed using an event bus called NATS streaming server.